Robert Moses famously built the bridges on Long Island with low underpasses so that buses from Black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods couldn't get to Jones Beach. I don't have the crayons, nor the patience, to explain why this is indeed very racist. https://t.co/vAcOcUKBIc pic.twitter.com/Djx0Nhqqyh
— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) March 28, 2024
Turns out bridges can be racist
https://twitter.com/the_transit_guy/status/1773370129318838272
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well he did say roads were racist
Buttigieg says America's highways are racist and infrastructure bill will help fix it
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STL was a test city for the Highway system, and they didn't build exits in black neighborhoods, saying they were "areas of low economic interest"
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They should have left it that way, have you ever accidentally taken an exit into East STL?
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Drive through to go to family gathering in Illinois
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are there still no exits in black neighborhoods in STL?
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There are fewer, but they've added them over time, and it wasn't none, but very few
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Need mo money fo dem programz
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