> before urban neighbourhoods were demolished for freeways I do not doubt that there were places where this happened, but speaking about it as some absolute is

> before urban neighbourhoods were demolished for freeways I do not doubt that there were places where this happened, but speaking about it as some absolute is simply disingenuous and untrue. For example, San Francisco is the birthplace of our cultural concept of freeway revolts, but San Francisco's 1950s freeway plan was intentionally routed to avoid bisecting any of the City-and-County's residential districts. Check out this composite map I just whipped up and you should be able to see how the planned freeways were routed along district boundaries, not through them: https://i.imgur.com/MSbpF5e.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/MSbpF5e.jpeg Sources: — https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/1955trafficways.jpg https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/wp-content/uploads/... (base layer) — https://i0.wp.com/thefrontsteps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/San-Francisco-Real-Estate-Districts-Map.jpg?ssl=1 https://i0.wp.com/thefrontsteps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/... (33% opacity) I specify “residential” districts because SOMA is bisected but SOMA was all warehouses and freight railroad yards at the time so there was no reason to care. Even the famously-hated Embarcadero Freeway was on formerly-CA-state-owned land where the “State Belt” waterfront industrial railroad ran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Belt_Railroad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Belt_Railroad https://i.imgur.com/Mq3mWQr.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/Mq3mWQr.jpeg