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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should really look into privatizing DC 295 and tolling it.[/quote]

295 should be either demolished or tunnelized. Like many urban highways constructed across the US aim the 50s, it was an economic wrecking ball for black neighborhoods. There is no single thing that the city could to revitalize communities EOTR than to get rid of that road and restore access to the waterfront.[/quote]
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Generations of poverty, violence, and illness created by big dumb infrastructure projects may be a joke to you, but I assure you that it’s not to those who have experienced it.

Good article on what this road has done to those who have the misfortune to live on the wrong side of it: https://ggwash.org/view/81903/both-route-295-and-railroads-divide-neighborhoods-in-northeast-dc[/quote]

The fact that you provide a link to a GGW article is perfect.

295 blocking access to Bolling AFB and Anacostia Park is not creating poverty. You’re an idiot.

Poverty is not a joke to me but you certainly are.[/quote]

Did you just arrive from Mars or something? That highways - like 295 - decimated black inner city communities is foundational American history. I’d recommend this for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/. 295 is certainly not the sole cause of the problems EOTR, but there is no doubt that those neighborhoods would be significantly improved were the highway to be covered or dismantled entirely. One of the few positives of the Big Dig was what it did for downtown Boston (https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html).[/quote]

The reason that upper NW inside the beltway is so nice is they fought off the originally planned interstates in the area. Pretty much every nice neighborhood today does not have a highway running through it. I don't get why some people fail to see any link here.[/quote]

There was a plan - which would have been built had it not been for a few GU students sabotaging the construction equipment - to build a massive highway across the Potomac and through the Foxhall and Georgetown neighborhoods over to U Street. Does anyone seriously think the multi-million dollar houses in the Palisades would be there today if that highway had been built?[/quote]

It was Peter Craig and Roberts Owen who fought the legal battles that stopped the highways. The GU students provided visible cover to garner support.[/quote]

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