The U.S. Transportation Department's Quest to Become a Driver of Justice [bloomberg.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 7/8/214:00 AM

By Laura Bliss and Hadriana Lowenkron, Bloomberg City Lab + Equality, July 1, 2021

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has spoken often about the injustices created by federal highways built over the last 70 years, raising interest in the idea of tearing some of them down.

“It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects plowing through them because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” then secretary-nominee Buttigieg told CNN in December. “We have a chance to get that right.”

But turning the Department of Transportation into a driver of justice is a tall order for a federal agency that hasn’t made sweeping policy change since the 1950s and ‘60s, when the very highways in question tore through those Black and brown communities.

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