re: Am I reading this right? They want to take down the Claiborne expressway??

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The federal government built the expressway in the late 1960s as a way to speed traffic through New Orleans’ downtown core. At the time, white elected officials and traffic engineers paid little heed to concerns that the elevated highway meant demolishing dozens of stately oak trees on the wide neutral ground of North Claiborne Avenue and disrupting a thriving Black business district in the process.

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