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