• Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Overall, it seems like standard nimby-ism.

    I would agree if the US government didn’t have a history of bulldozing predominantly Black neighborhoods in the name of infrastructure and instantly omitting white affluent neighborhoods.

    While this project doesn’t seem to do it at first glance can you blame black ppl of instantly distrusting the US government motives?

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, definitely. Baltimore also has a good record of combatting that in the case of highway 70, too. In this case, though, it’s just tunneling under that neighborhood, not carving a path through it. Oddly enough, further down the track, there are ~20 people getting displaced (might have already happened), but that’s in a different neighborhood, and I think that would have happened no matter where the tunnel was moved.