Ben FultonThey won't be taking Claiborne down in New Orleans, unfortunately. But $500k is a pittance for upgrading, so at least they shouldn't be widening it.
Congress for the New UrbanismUS DOT advances highway transformations
Reconnecting Communities grants represent a step toward a larger effort to undo the considerable damage from 20th Century transportation planning, aligning with CNU's Freeways Without Futures.
#HighwaystoBoulevards #FreewaysWithoutFutures
#ReconnectingCommunities
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2023/03/02/us-dot-advances-range-highway-transformations
Chris McCahillHere's a great new resource from AARP Livable Communities describing the historical impacts of highway construction and urban renewal on predominantly Black communities.
https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/getting-around/info-2023/before-the-highway-introduction.html #ReconnectingCommunities #UrbanRenewal #UrbanPlanning
The #California DOT is launching its own Reconnecting Communities program ($149M), partly to provide local match for the federal proposals. Applicants must describe how they would use the funds with and without a federal award. https://buff.ly/3ilqTkd
#IIJA #FederalFunding #Transportation #ReconnectingCommunities #FreewayFighters #Caltrans
USDOT is considering two separate proposals for New Orleans’ Claiborne Expressway.
The city and state want $95 million to make repairs, tidy it up, and remove on/off-ramps.
But a group led by Amy Stelly wants $2 million to study its potential removal.
Some believe the two proposals complement each other.
#Urbanism #ReconnectingCommunities #FreewayFighters #Transportation
Fixing Claiborne — the highway that split a Black neighborhood — could come down to 2 proposals
When the Claiborne Expressway was built through the Tremé, it decimated what some remember as the Black Wall Street of New Orleans. It’s been called a textbook example of America’s racist highway history. Now, there’s a new federal program to address that past — and a few ideas in New Orleans for how to best use the money.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg launches a $1 billion pilot program aimed at helping to reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects. The Reconnecting Communities program promises aid to dozens of communities.
#TransportationSecretary #PeteButtigieg #ReconnectingCommunities
https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-transportation-pete-buttigieg-48e09f253781c89359d875f19fc70f9d
Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in roads
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.