{"id":1119748,"date":"2021-12-14T23:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119748"},"modified":"2021-12-14T23:13:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:13:55","slug":"biden-administration-california-lawmakers-move-to-eliminate-racist-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-california-lawmakers-move-to-eliminate-racist-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration, California Lawmakers Move to Eliminate &#039;Racist&#039; Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-california-lawmakers-move-to-eliminate-racist-highways%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119748&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Los-Angeles-Freeways-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The idea that some U.S. highways were built to hurt minority neighborhoods is not new, but in 2021 they are getting new attention from both the Biden administration and a state legislator in California who wants a law to prevent freeway expansion in certain areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p>A provision in President Joe Biden\u2019s Build Back Better Act is called Reconnecting Communities, and it is a $1 billon program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Liam Dillon, a reporter with the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> who investigated whether people were displaced to build roads,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/12\/1063539457\/as-freeways-expand-black-and-latino-communities-bear-the-brunt\"> said<\/a> in a taxpayer-funded National Public Radio interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p>The point of it is to potentially even tear down freeways, sort of address some of the harms from racist planning decisions with respect to where freeways were cited in the past and sort of reconnect, as the program states. But, you know, that amount again, only $1 billion, sort of pales in comparison to the potential hundreds of billions of dollars that are essentially unrestricted where state transportation departments could use it to further expand freeways and, in many cases, continue to displace families.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell, it\u2019s very concerning,\u201d Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said when asked about the <strong>Times<\/strong> report. \u201cIt\u2019s something that we need to pay attention to so that these dollars are always doing good, not harm, that they are connecting, not dividing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to make sure that every penny of the federal money that\u2019s going out here goes out on equitable terms and in inclusive ways,\u201d Buttigieg said of the BBB provision.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>And now a state legislator from Los Angeles County is introducing legislation to block freeway expansions \u201cin underserved communities across California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/homeless-housing\/story\/2021-12-12\/freeway-expansions-in-underserved-communities-could-be-banned-under-proposed-state-law\"><em>&nbsp;<\/em>reported<\/a> on the proposed law:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p>Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) said her bill would prohibit the state from funding or permitting highway projects in areas with high rates of pollution and poverty and where residents have suffered negative health effects from living near freeways.<\/p>\n<p>She said state leaders should consider the significant evidence of racial and health disparities caused by highway construction as well as research showing that freeway widenings frequently fail to resolve traffic congestion because they induce more car trips.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said the impetus for the legislation, which she plans to introduce early next year, was a recent Times investigation that documented the effects of freeway construction over the last three decades. The Times found that more than 200,000 people nationwide have been displaced because of federal road projects during that time, and that some of the country\u2019s largest recent highway expansions have forced out residents in Black and Latino neighborhoods at disproportionately high rates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf we have the data and we have the research and we\u2019re ignoring it, that\u2019s when it starts to become criminal when you\u2019re in a position of power,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> also said Los Angeles Democrat State Senator Sydney Kamlager is considering authoring a bill to push for funding in next year\u2019s state budget to compensate those who moved for freeway expansion and for other improvements like planting trees and \u201cbeautifying\u201d overpasses that divide neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that some U.S. highways were built to hurt minority neighborhoods is not new, but in 2021 they are getting new attention from both the Biden administration and a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}