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Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies

  • Written by Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policiesInterstate 980 cuts off West Oakland, Calif., at top, from other Oakland neighborhoods.Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

The US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill now moving through Congress will bring money to cities for much-needed investments in roads, bridges, public transit networks, water infrastructure, electric...

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