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“Many highways expanded from major roads. The new segments (built where no major roads existed) had to connect existing major roads.” This is an opinion that i
by bluejekyll 2y ago
“Many highways expanded from major roads. The new segments (built where no major roads existed) had to connect existing major roads.”
This is an opinion that is not factually accurate to what happened. Entire neighborhoods were plowed under for highways that then created impediments to local neighborhood connections. Highways literally destroyed communities.
Look at the before and after pictures of Oakland in this article:
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/oakland/freeways https://www.segregationbydesign.com/oakland/freeways
- refurb 2y agoYour example shows the highways connected the Bay Bridge to I-95 and south to 880. The new highways were clearly connecting existing major roadways?
- bluejekyll 2y agoTake a look at 980 in the middle that destroyed two blocks width of homes straight through the middle of the city, miles long. That disconnected communities on either side of it. The same thing happened with 580, which isn’t shown in these overhead photos.
- refurb 2y agoI get it, but those connected major freeways. You're not going to tear down homes in the Oakland Hills to build a freeway not because it's full rich white people, but because it's nowhere close to the existing freeways.