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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Per the lawsuit:

12 percent of DC residents have mobility disabilities
Three-quarters of them are African American
One third of them are over the age of 65

Bicyclists five times more likely to be white than Black
Bicyclists predominantly male, white, 25-40, higher income
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Yeah, because that has absolutely nothing to do with nearly zero bike infrastructure existing in the majority minority areas of the city or the fact that those areas are literally separated from the downtown core by highway bridges that have the world's tiniest sidewalks (absent the brand new bridge, which is quite nice).  Yeah, of course it has nothing to do with that...[/quote]

"Are highways racist?" PP has some thinking to do. [/quote]

Highways themselves are not racist, but those who planned the highways in many urban areas were.  Not that DC, like many urban areas, chose to apply eminent domain and take away land and housing away from largely lower income minority communities rather than take the more logical route through higher income largely white communities.  If you had constructed the in-bound highway to DC from College Park down through eastern Montgomery County, you would not have needed to construct bridges over the Potomac.  But instead, you take away land across the Potomac forcing the construction of multiple larger volume bridges to avoid the NIMBY white higher income homes in Montgomery County.  It would have saved the DOT a lot of money to have directed the in-bound highway from the North instead of trying to make it bypass the city across the river.  But that was never going to be feasible with the NIMBY's.  
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