Many different people of varying motivations were involved in making the interstate system. It isn't obvious that any significant part of the motivations for th

Many different people of varying motivations were involved in making the interstate system. It isn't obvious that any significant part of the motivations for that system were racist, let alone the primary ones. Moses' involvement in road planning around New York hardly makes him the architect of the interstate system. Everybody wants to benefit from good first-world infrastructure, but fewer people want to pay for it, and anywhere you build it there will be NIMBYs who don't want it there.