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While consumers and travelers suffer, Buttigieg focuses on 'racist' roads
Posted on 7/5/22 at 10:57 am
Posted on 7/5/22 at 10:57 am
Washington Examiner
A gallon of gas is almost $5, hundreds of airline flights are being canceled every day, and a possible strike by West Coast port unions is threatening to make an already unreliable supply chain even worse.
But don’t worry, America, your transportation secretary is focused like a laser on the top issue facing consumers and travelers today: racist roads.
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said last April. He was pushing for the inclusion of the Reconnecting Communities program in President Joe Biden’s $3 trillion Build Back Better plan.
Fortunately for the Reconnecting Communities program, it was not included in Biden’s failed Build Back Better agenda. It was instead stuffed into the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in July 2021 before sitting in the House for months, where it was held hostage by far-left Democrats. The legislation didn’t pass the House until November, and Buttigieg did not announce the first round of Reconnecting Communities funding until last Thursday.
The program is admittedly modest — just $1 billion over five years, including $245 million in spending this year. States, counties, cities, nonprofit organizations, and even private entities that own transportation facilities are all eligible to apply for grants. Grant money can be spent on projects that “help reconnect communities that were previously cut off from economic opportunities by transportation infrastructure.”
A gallon of gas is almost $5, hundreds of airline flights are being canceled every day, and a possible strike by West Coast port unions is threatening to make an already unreliable supply chain even worse.
But don’t worry, America, your transportation secretary is focused like a laser on the top issue facing consumers and travelers today: racist roads.
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said last April. He was pushing for the inclusion of the Reconnecting Communities program in President Joe Biden’s $3 trillion Build Back Better plan.
Fortunately for the Reconnecting Communities program, it was not included in Biden’s failed Build Back Better agenda. It was instead stuffed into the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in July 2021 before sitting in the House for months, where it was held hostage by far-left Democrats. The legislation didn’t pass the House until November, and Buttigieg did not announce the first round of Reconnecting Communities funding until last Thursday.
The program is admittedly modest — just $1 billion over five years, including $245 million in spending this year. States, counties, cities, nonprofit organizations, and even private entities that own transportation facilities are all eligible to apply for grants. Grant money can be spent on projects that “help reconnect communities that were previously cut off from economic opportunities by transportation infrastructure.”
This post was edited on 7/5/22 at 10:59 am
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Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:03 am to cajunangelle
Has to be true.. politifact confirmed it.
This post was edited on 7/5/22 at 11:04 am
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:06 am to cajunangelle
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“There is racism physically built into some of our highways,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said last April.
Anyone still buying into the lie that Liberals are smart and Conservatives are dumb?
Anti-Science, anti-CommonSense, dumb motherfers.....
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:11 am to cajunangelle
For G-d's sake, I hope this helps address the massive food desert problem so that they can have better access to healthy food and assists the community with better access to the DMV so they can finally get licenses to drive (or otherwise finally acquire photo IDs) on these long awaited roads.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:15 am to cajunangelle
It is certainly reasonable to say that "racist highways" are hardly the most-important issue facing the DoT, but I would HOPE that the DoT is capable of addressing more than one issue at a time.
It is indisputable that any number of highways in this country (RL Thornton Expressway in Dallas, for example) were sited in a highly-discriminatory manner that did lasting harm to minority communities. The relevant question is really whether making some attempt to "change" the roadways is really efficient, reasonable or helpful TODAY.
It is indisputable that any number of highways in this country (RL Thornton Expressway in Dallas, for example) were sited in a highly-discriminatory manner that did lasting harm to minority communities. The relevant question is really whether making some attempt to "change" the roadways is really efficient, reasonable or helpful TODAY.
This post was edited on 7/5/22 at 11:19 am
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:16 am to Narrowboat
He was caught in a lie about his claim about racist roads last year. And he continues with the lie...
Buttigieg used disputed Moses story to claim road racism: fact-checker
Buttigieg used disputed Moses story to claim road racism: fact-checker
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:18 am to Ace Midnight
don't show them this...
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:21 am to cajunangelle
Will they chop down I-10 between Poydras and Franklin in new orleans first ?
If so, when will the chopping start?
These dems talk up a storm and then nothing happens.
If so, when will the chopping start?
These dems talk up a storm and then nothing happens.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:24 am to cajunangelle
quote:
The program is admittedly modest — just $1 billion over five years, including $245 million in spending this year. States, counties, cities, nonprofit organizations, and even private entities that own transportation facilities are all eligible to apply for grants. Grant money can be spent on projects that “help reconnect communities that were previously cut off from economic opportunities by transportation infrastructure.”
Can someone explain at least the logic they're applying to arrive at the conclusion that "roads are racist"? How are roads perceived as racist.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:24 am to AggieHank86
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:33 am to cajunangelle
So if bootyjig tears down the Claiborne expressway where will the city put all that old concrete at ?
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:34 am to WhiskeyThrottle
quote:
Can someone explain at least the logic they're applying to arrive at the conclusion that "roads are racist"? How are roads perceived as racist.
When the interstate system was built in the 50’s-70’s, imminent domain was used to acquire the right of ways through major cities. To save money, routes through the cheapest property to acquire was used. The cheapest property tended to be the worst neighborhoods, which were overwhelmingly African American. The neighborhoods alongside these highways then further declined in value.
The reality, though, is that those neighborhoods already were economically depressed. The highways gave the people there better access to employers. Finally, the arguments that these elevated highways “divide” neighborhoods are absurd. Elevated highways allow for roads to pass through underneath. While they might be ugly, they’re incredibly easy to cross. In fact, they’re much easier to cross than clogged and busy surface streets or at grade-level interstate highways which are literal barriers to movement.
All this “racist highways” program is a scam so that the federal government can steal money earmarked for building and maintaining highways to instead tear them down. Roads are one of the few things universally agreed upon as a necessary expenditure by government, so government enacts every scheme imaginable to divert money from highway construction to hold infrastructure hostage and fund unrelated pet projects against the wishes of taxpayers.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:37 am to cajunangelle
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“There is racism physically built into some of our highways,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said last April.
If anyone's an expert on this, it's the gay mayor of South Bend, IN.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:40 am to SantaFe
They will sell it to the local Antifa group
Posted on 7/5/22 at 11:42 am to AggieHank86
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but I would HOPE that the DoT is capable of addressing more than one issue at a time.
Which actual, real world, evidence would indicate otherwise.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 12:18 pm to cajunangelle
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There is racism physically built into some of our highways
Pete\Dims, to make things easier, please list those things that are not 'racist'..the list will be way shorter.
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Reconnecting Communities program
Why do we need connected communities? That does nothing but give a convenient way for the criminals to get to those of us who would like to live in peace, even if it means we have to drive 30 mins to get to the Interstate.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 12:43 pm to PollyDawg
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Why do we need connected communities? That does nothing but give a convenient way for the criminals to get to those of us who would like to live in peace, even if it means we have to drive 30 mins to get to the Interstate.
That program has zero to do with the above.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 6:06 pm to Wally Sparks
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That program has zero to do with the above.
Ahhh, okay...
"Grant money can be spent on projects that “help reconnect communities that were previously cut off from economic opportunities by transportation infrastructure.”
I was focused on the above, that I apparently took to mean something it doesn't.
Posted on 7/5/22 at 6:10 pm to cajunangelle
quote:
The program is admittedly modest — just $1 billion over five years, including $245 million in spending this year
Ridiculous.
It's our money, not theirs.
These people are so misguided and lost.
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