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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d like to see some support for renewed investment in Baltimore. Someone who would support converting that freeway-to-nowhere US 40 into a boulevard that could reunite neighborhoods long blighted by that road. Md could easily snag federal funding for that.

Also someone who would back the redevelopment of the State Center (Metro Subway Link) station, surrounded by blocks of parking lots, blight, and soon to be abandoned state office buildings. What a waste of real estate in the heart of the city. Politicians have been talking about redeveloping that area for years with no progress. I’m sure there are federal funds (economic development funds and block grants) the state could get.[/quote]

Roads are not racist. Roads allow people to get to work in placed that are not near their homes. Why should people be limited to employment and leisure to places that are within walking distance?[/quote]

Have you actually ever seen US 40? It’s an incomplete freeway to nowhere. The freeway protests of the 70s blocked its completion which had already leveled a dozen blocks of charming rowhouse neighborhoods in a largely black section of West Baltimore. Just imagine the redevelopment potential of all those blocks in the center of the city. Everyone would benefit, even the unscrupulous developers.

Have you ever actually been on the Central Leg Freeway in Washington DC? It dead ends at NY Ave because the neighborhoods from Shaw to Takoma successfully blocked it. The freeways were not only racist, but they would have absolutely destroyed these cities and their charming neighborhoods with sidewalk cafes, gardens, mom and pop variety stores, and victorian era homes.

Buttigeig is tearing down these racist freeways and building beautiful boulevards one at a time. But not without support from the states’ congressional delegations. [/quote]

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