Re:Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto in...
by dillondoyle on Monday December 21, 2020 @07:30PM
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Big example here in Denver, cut off historically black/hispanic neighborhood straight down the middle. Plus added a big leaking chemical refinery, dog food plant etc. The smells and pollution and asthma have had generational health effects.
Links to read below. #2 specifically has moving images/graphics.
They're currently expanding... to be fair they will add a small amount of benefits to 'bridge the gap' like a small park over a new small lowered section (but i think like only a couple blocks wide).
But it's still an expansion and the construction is bringing even more problems & nuisance.
Plus mostly young, mostly white expensive new construction apartment buildings have been creeping north and displacing a lot of historically black low income families. I think infilling and repurposing some of the old warehouse type space is good but the inequity is undeniable.
Links to read below. #2 specifically has moving images/graphics.
They're currently expanding... to be fair they will add a small amount of benefits to 'bridge the gap' like a small park over a new small lowered section (but i think like only a couple blocks wide).
But it's still an expansion and the construction is bringing even more problems & nuisance.
Plus mostly young, mostly white expensive new construction apartment buildings have been creeping north and displacing a lot of historically black low income families. I think infilling and repurposing some of the old warehouse type space is good but the inequity is undeniable.
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