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Jan 17

Construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway required the forcible displacement of tens of thousands of people across the two boroughs. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut a nearly 15-mile gash through some of the most densely populated neighborhoods on the planet.

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Ray Delahanty

@Nerd4Cities

May 3

I already knew that many of our worst urban freeways were intentionally driven through Black neighborhoods — but this week I learned that some of them were later renamed for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pretty revolting stuff.

Dr. Martin Luther King Expressway in Montgomery AL

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David Wallace-Wells

@dwallacewells

"Black people were more than twice as likely, for each mile walked, to be struck and killed by a vehicle as white pedestrians. For Black cyclists, the fatality risk per mile was 4.5 times as high as that for white cyclists."

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

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article is so damning. These disparities are predictable when fast roads are concentrated in low-income communities -- but sidewalks and bike lanes are not. nytimes.com/interactive/20

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Streetsblog USA

@StreetsblogUSA

"Our elected officials must be willing to face an unpleasant set of facts: that the appalling racial disparity in road deaths continues on their watch, and that nearly every killing of a cyclist or pedestrian by a car is preventable."

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

NYC Office of Technology and Innovation

@NYCOfficeofTech

Jan 22

The #NYCOTI Geographic Information Systems (GIS) team was proud to work with

, providing them with the needed data to create this unique before/after animation. It powerfully shows the impact development of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway had on affected communities.

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National Safety Council

@NSCsafety

May 1

We’re facing a national crisis on our roads – and troubling disparities exist that we must address. Thank you to

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@NYTimes

for this thoughtful opinion piece: American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap. #RoadwaySafety #KeepEachOtherSafe

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An estimated 19 pedestrians a day were struck and killed by cars in the US last year—a disproportionate number of them Black and Hispanic. The history of racism in the physical design of our cities is partly to blame. More in my guest essay for @nytimes nytimes.com/interactive/20

Ellery

@ElleryKlein

Apr 29

Was finally in Nubian Square yesterday and able to see this spot after reading

’s history. What once was a beautiful church and community block, now just a desolate, huge gravel lot with a giant police station just looming ominously over the block.

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Feb 21, 2022

In Roxbury, officially known as the “heart of black culture in Boston,” in the 1960s the government demolished the Dudley Street Church and replaced it with a police station. (I posted this earlier, but this time I took a try at colorizing the "before" photo.)

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Smart Growth America

@SmartGrowthUSA

Apr 28

"These roads and highways, designed in the middle of the last century to provide convenient access to the city from the ever-sprawling suburbs, often brought misery to the minority communities they hurtled through." —

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

American Association of Geographers

@theAAG

Apr 27

Black and Latinx pedestrians and bicyclists in the U.S. deal with much more lethal, high-traffic streets than white pedestrians. Findings by

#transport #geography

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

Kalimah Priforce

@priforce

Apr 27

Love this article. Hoping the bike orgs can use this to better connect with Black and Brown groups. #Emeryville

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Black and Hispanic pedestrians are killed at significantly higher rates than white pedestrians — and the physical design of our cities is partly to blame. Read more in my article for today's @nytopinion: nytimes.com/interactive/20

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Edward Russell

@ByERussell

Black people are more than 2x as likely, for each mile walked, to be struck and killed by a vehicle as white pedestrians on America's roads. Black cyclists are 4.5x as likely as white cyclists, and Hispanic walkers 1.5x and bikers 1.7x. via

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

Vision Zero Network

@Visionzeronet

The crisis on our roadways continues to follow a clear and consistent pattern of Black & Latinx pedestrians being killed at significantly higher rates than white pedestrians & the design our roadways has a lot to do with these troubling disparities.

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

Read more at:

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

The COVID pandemic magnified what we’ve always known: Our nation’s streets are dangerous by design.Released today, Dangerous By Design 2022 provides the most up-to-date look at the preventable...

These neighborhoods are “much more likely to contain major arterial roads built for high speeds and higher traffic volumes at intersections, exacerbating dangerous conditions for people walking,” according to a recent report from

@SmartGrowthUSA

smartgrowthamerica.org

Dangerous by Design 2022

ajph.aphapublications.org

Research from

@UNC

found that formerly redlined neighborhoods—often the targets of midcentury “slum clearance” projects that destroyed residences and businesses to allow for arterial roads and highways—had a strong statistical association w/ ped. deaths.

Structural Racism and Pedestrian Safety: Measuring the Association Between Historical Redlining and...

Objectives. To examine the association between historical redlining and contemporary pedestrian fatalities across the United States. Methods. We analyzed 2010–2019 traffic fatality data, obtained...

Low-Income People of Color Bear Brunt of Rising Pedestrian Deaths

Ped. and cyclist injuries tend to be concentrated in poorer neighborhoods that have a larger share of Black and Hispanic residents & which share a history of under-investment in basic traffic safety measures & an over-investment in automobile infra.

pewtrusts.org

“It’s still unsafe.”

For every mile walked by a Black American, the risk of being killed by a car is more than double that of a white American. For every mile bicycled while Black, the risk of death is over 4x.

: nytimes.com/interactive/20

🧵Black and Hispanic pedestrians are killed at significantly higher rates than white pedestrians — and the physical design of our cities is partly to blame. Read more in my article for today's

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Jeremy Ashkenas

@jashkenas

For every mile walked by a Black American, the risk of being killed by a car is more than double that of a white American. For every mile bicycled while Black, the risk of death is over 4x. Read

connect the dots to the bigger picture: nytimes.com/interactive/20

Transportation Alternatives

@TransAlt

Traffic violence is no accident, and deliberate choices have made our streets more dangerous for Black and Hispanic New Yorkers. Powerful new piece and maps from

: nytimes.com/interactive/20

@nytopinion

Outside of highly-congested Midtown Manhattan, New York City's most dangerous streets for pedestrians are disproportionately located in historically Black and Hispanic areas of the South Bronx, East Harlem, and East New York.
Some of the most notoriously dangerous roads, such as Atlantic Avenue, Grand Concourse, and Queens Boulevard, were redesigned in the 1940s to accommodate high-speed through traffic.

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Beth Osborne

@BethOsborneT4A

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

"Vision Zero can be remarkably effective...But it requires a committed redesign of city streets and bikeways, not just rhetoric and ribbon-cutting ceremonies."

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

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This elevation is super cool

Byron Nicholas, PP, AICP

@BlackAndUrban_

Apr 20

event.newschool.edu/inpersonbipocp The BIPOC Planning Collective, an affiliate of Planners Network, is hosting this event on Thurs, April 27, 3 pm EST at the New School. Organized by

#SeanRobin & ft.

INFRASTRUCTURE & EQUITY WORKSHOP

Planners Network NYC

@NYCplanners

Apr 19

The BIPOC Planning Collective, an affiliate of Planners Network, is hosting this event on Thurs, April 27, 3 pm EST at the New School. Organized by

#SeanRobin & ft.

The BIPOC Planning Collective, an affiliate of the Planners Network, is a group committed to supporting planners of color, as well as planning processes that affirm communities of color. In collab...

@pjsparkles93

Apr 19

Replying to

LaVilla: The Rise & Fall of a Great Black Neighborhood

The same thing happened with Jacksonville’s vibrant black neighborhoods — La Villa & Sugar Hill when they were razed for I-95… So much history & culture lost. It’s really detestable.

thejaxsonmag.com

A detailed timeline illustrating the rise and fall of a great Jacksonville African-American neighborhood: LaVilla

Segregation by Design maps highway expansion in Florida’s Magic City

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Also more info here:

archpaper.com

Adam Paul Susaneck founder of Segregation by Design shares the divisive history of urban renewal and highway design in Miami, Florida.

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Apr 18

More on the racist history of Miami's historic and ongoing development in NDB Connolly's excellent book, "A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida."

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Apr 18

Construction of I-95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents in Overtown—nearly 100% of them Black. Using eminent domain, the gov't seized buildings across the heart of Miami's Black community, offering owners well below market rate—and renters nothing.

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push the needle

@pushtheneedle

"stop trying to force a lifestyle change" twitter.com/AdamMantine/st…

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Black population in the US, 1900, by WEB Dubois of

@CAU

WEB Dubois was a pioneer in the fields of sociology and civil rights activism. Dubois was also highly influential in the nascent field of data visualization, along with others such as F. Nightingale and CJ Minard. You can see many of Dubois' graphics here: loc.gov/pictures/searc

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Tiffany Cabán

@tiffany_caban

We have schools w/o after school programs. Libraries reducing open hours. Folks going hungry w/o their snap benefits…but we good spending $750,000 on robot dogs to expand our police state & terrorize neighbors. Show me your budget and I’ll show you your values.

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Ben Max

@TweetBenMax

the NYPD's new "digi-dog" robot, a danger assessment tool

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@NewUrbanism

has released its 2023 report of "Freeways without Futures," based on social, economic, engineering, and environmental criteria. I had the opportunity to serve on the jury for this year's list. Complete report: cnu.org/highways-boule

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Overtown before-and-after the highways. As NDB Connolly notes in A World More Concrete, “Displacements were intentional. They represented, for growth-minded elites, successful attempts to contain black people and to subsidize regional economies with millions in federal spending.”

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Miami's billion-dollar highway widening project through Overtown has flooded. The project builds on the legacy of racist infrastructure planning, expanding the very highway whose initial construction displaced over 12,000 people—nearly 100% black—in Overtown alone.

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Because Miami

@BecauseMiami

Third World Government, Fourth World Infrastructure: Tonight in Downtown Miami at the construction site of @myfdot_miami and @MDXway’s billion dollar boondoggle scam signature bridge. Completion was just delayed from 2023 to late 2027. #BecauseMiami

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Transportation Alternatives

@TransAlt

Apr 10

The evidence is clear: Fewer lanes on the BQE is better for people who use it and leads to safer streets. Any plan cannot expand highways and instead must focus on reducing our dependence on the harmful BQE.

nyc.streetsblog.org

Stats Show That a Narrower BQE is Safer, Yet City is Considering Widening the Highway

Collisions on the Queens-bound side of the cantilever have dropped 65 percent compared to 2019, according to a DOT analysis obtained by Streetsblog.

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