
Putting 12 Urban Freeways Out to Pasture
YouTubeI had lost track of the effort to reduce the harms to public health and safety from Moses’s Cross Bronx Expressway. Capping it is expected to increase the life expectancy of 200,000 by two months
#urbanhighways #airpollution #cleanair #nyc https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/05/18/u-s-rep-ritchie-torres-wants-federal-backing-for-potential-cross-bronx-capping
Torres Seeks Fed Backing for Cross Bronx Capping - Streetsblog New York City
The federal government should give a financial and bureaucratic boost to the effort to cap the Cross Bronx Expressway, according to a Bronx congressman hoping to capitalize on federal backing for a similar project in Texas announced earlier this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/13/biden-infrastructure-spending-cities “at least a million people and businesses in the US were displaced by decades of harmful urban renewal projects in the buildout of the federal highway system”
#urbanrenewal #urbanhighways #climate #equity #housing Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities ‘torn apart’ by highways decades ago
President announces $3.3bn in infrastructure spending to ‘right historic wrongs’ as he takes 2024 campaign to vital swing states
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