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Buttigieg awards big fed grant to tear
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Posted By: Kafka2, 9/15/2022 11:26:04 AM

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday launched a $1 billion first-of-its-kind pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects, pledging wide-ranging help to dozens of communities despite the program’s limited dollars. Under the Reconnecting Communities program, cities and states can now apply for the federal aid over five years to rectify harm caused by roadways that were built primarily through lower-income, Black communities after the 1950s creation of the interstate highway system.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Safari Man 9/15/2022 11:32:01 AM (No. 1278188)
Well, its a first step! Next we can dismantle mathematics and rewrite the laws of physics.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Scottyboy 9/15/2022 11:32:30 AM (No. 1278189)
Just when you thought ‘Progressives’ couldn’t think of any more dumb ways to flush our tax dollars down the crapper….
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Sardonic 9/15/2022 11:32:38 AM (No. 1278190)
More porkbarrel spending by the most corrupt administration we've had in decades
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Reply 4 - Posted by: downnout 9/15/2022 11:37:49 AM (No. 1278199)
And this will help the supply backlog how, exactly?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: GoodDeal 9/15/2022 11:41:42 AM (No. 1278201)
Money for nothing. This is to make work for union labor and permanent campaign donations back in return.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Califedup 9/15/2022 11:44:01 AM (No. 1278208)
Can these funds be used to rectify the harms caused by all the Federal Buildings in Communist Washington DC?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: TLCary 9/15/2022 11:48:20 AM (No. 1278213)
While Universities push forward with segregated dorms and classrooms where Whitey and Jews are not allowed to be present and pollute the pristine Black Culture. Odd, right?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: kewmac 9/15/2022 11:51:51 AM (No. 1278217)
Another costly boondoggle. FPB and FJB!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 9/15/2022 11:51:58 AM (No. 1278218)
Paying to REMOVE infrastructure. DESTROYING the ability to drive around efficiently "for racism:. MORE lies. These "progressives" HATE actual progress.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Jethro bo 9/15/2022 12:01:06 PM (No. 1278222)
I can remember not long ago when Dems wanted to improve infrastructure. Now they want to tear down infrastructure cause it’s racist. One can make up this level of stupid.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Kafka2 9/15/2022 12:02:51 PM (No. 1278224)
Other reports state Detroit's project would replace the stretch of Interstate with a slower-speed boulevard that aims to improve safety. Although lesser, the traffic on this boulevard would still make it a dividing barrier. None of the homes torn down 60 year ago would be replace. A goodly number of the people displaced are no longer with us. The city has plans to develop the boulevard commercially, which could drive out more of the residents. I don't see anything in this project to mitigate the wrong done 60 years ago. Who benefits, other than developers and politicians spending other people's money?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: BarryNo 9/15/2022 12:03:38 PM (No. 1278225)
Why not just dig in some overpasses? I'm assuming that there have not been complaints of the road's usefulness. All symbolic, is my guess. Make-work, so the transportation unions don't cause a fuss at midterms. And I bet these roads were positioned and built under Democrat Administrations.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Nimby 9/15/2022 12:07:06 PM (No. 1278227)
The idiot who couldn't even get a pothole fixed in Southbend, IN!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 9/15/2022 12:11:32 PM (No. 1278228)
I remember a story regarding light poles when growing up. Check the color of the lights at off ramps. If the ramp led to a black unsafe neighborhood, the light had a different color that gave off more illumination. Obviously, they should remove those light poles. They are racist!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Newtsche 9/15/2022 12:13:34 PM (No. 1278232)
Society will be better off for this. The Sun rises in the West.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: MDConservative 9/15/2022 12:31:25 PM (No. 1278242)
FTA: "The Transportation Department has aimed to help communities that feel racially harmed by highway expansions..." Will the same apply to "communities that feel racially harmed" by increased crime rates when this program succeeds?
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Reply 17 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 9/15/2022 12:35:39 PM (No. 1278246)
Hmm, I guess Build Back Better morphed into Tear Down Faster. I grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks" as the Santa Fe split the city east to west and headed toward Abq, North to south. I could always say, yeah, I live east of Lincoln, but at least I don't live in Southtown. The moral of this is to esplain to the little butt wipe that you can't wave your glittery fairy wand and transform societal preferences of association and habitation among people of like- mindedness or economic situation. Watch what happens on Martha's Vinyard.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: volksford 9/15/2022 12:36:31 PM (No. 1278248)
I guess all those white folks in Appalachia who lost hundreds of acreage just need to suck it up
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Rumblehog 9/15/2022 12:56:05 PM (No. 1278267)
To these Feds a billion dollars is like a twenty to working class Americans. This spending is completely out of control. They can't even track a single dollar of it to see that it's going to the right cause.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Starboard_side 9/15/2022 1:10:38 PM (No. 1278285)
They could start with all of the major highways in Chicago area which divided neighborhoods. Believe they were inspired by how the Chicago River was manipulated to run backwards, and also divided neighborhoods. Why do Progressives always need to look backwards?
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Axeman 9/15/2022 1:36:51 PM (No. 1278301)
I'm guessing that every single highway divides something, somewhere. Thus, they are all divisive. Get rid of them all.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: DVC 9/15/2022 1:42:31 PM (No. 1278308)
The real goal is to make automotive commuting impossible, force people to give up cars and get on buses. They DESPISE our freedom to travel, to choose where to live, to commute from the suburbs or farther. They hate our free lives, and they want us trapped in ant colonies like in Europe.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Californian 9/15/2022 3:23:37 PM (No. 1278421)
I don't even talk to (or know) my immediate next door neighbors on either side. How will tearing down useful highways have people uh meeting and talking to each other blocks away? What?
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Reply 24 - Posted by: mean Gene 9/15/2022 4:18:15 PM (No. 1278465)
What a waste! It wasn't black vs white communities before these roads/highways were constructed. It was AFTER when that happened. And any new highways major pete makes (lol, takes too long for even one) will have the same thing happen. It used to be called, "the other side of the tracks." Now it's "across highway X, Y and Z."
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Reply 25 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 9/15/2022 4:22:28 PM (No. 1278468)
In Portland, I5 cuts through what was many years ago a lower property value neighborhood. It goes straight up to Vancouver and was probably the most cost efficient place to put a freeway at the time. There are many streets that cross over it "connecting" the two sides and it has a perfectly good foot bridge that doesn't get much use. They don't need to cover it, they need to expand it. It's currently a parking lot during rush hours and a few more lanes would be wonderful. But, the current car-hating Portland government is more likely to reduce it to one lane and make the rest into bike paths.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Griller1 9/15/2022 5:22:31 PM (No. 1278518)
What kind of idiot finds racism in where roads are constructed?
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Reply 27 - Posted by: paral04 9/15/2022 5:29:17 PM (No. 1278528)
Does this mean that the thugs can get to middle class neighbors to rob and kill the residents easier? How thoughtful of him. I wonder where he lives?
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Reply 28 - Posted by: bad-hair 9/15/2022 5:57:27 PM (No. 1278560)
And now the trains have stopped. Believe me LONG before the official strike THE TRAINS STOP. Hi Butt Gig. This is your job. Get on it.
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