In city after city, highways have been designed in a way that prompted the demolition or fragmentation of Black neighborhoods. This is from a combination of racism, lower land-acquisition costs, and weaker political muscle to oppose the projects.
We reached out to experts on highways and urban history and found wide support for Buttigieg’s assertion, although other factors often played a role as well. Buttigieg’s office also provided links to articles on the subject.
One fundamental reality of road-building, experts say, is to keep costs down, and the price tag for land acquisition can sometimes exceed the cost of construction. Often, the motivations for road-building came from political and business leaders in urban centers, who sought to stop the loss of population and businesses from downtown by luring back car-driving suburbanites, said Mark H. Rose, a historian at Florida Atlantic University.
In North Carolina, a freeway decimated the"Black Wall Street of the South" in Durham’s Hayti neighborhood. The North Claiborne Avenue area of New Orleans was the home of the Black Mardi Gras, but in the early 1960s, highway planners all but destroyed the neighborhood for an elevated section of I-10. Other examplesSometimes Interstates were built in ways that kept racial groups apart.stated on January 30, 2008 in a Republican debate in Simi Valley, Calif.
One of the most notorious examples of racism in highway planning predates the Interstate system: the Southern State Parkway on New York’s Long Island, which was built by the powerful planner Robert Moses.
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