Crypto News: Money for cities split by highways

In Baltimore, residents continue to grapple with the consequences of the so-called Highway to Nowhere — an unfinished expressway from the 1960s that tore through several Black neighborhoods on the city's West Side, and displaced thousands of people. The project, one of many greenlit by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, is part of America's long legacy of racist federal transportation policies that devastated Black communities.

A surge of federal funding announced on Tuesday offers new hope that these communities can be repaired. Baltimore is one of 45 grant recipients of the new Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program, which is allocating $185 million for projects that redesign or remove urban highways to create space for housing, parks and more. Advocates say it's a transformational move, but the era of destructive freeway projects is far from over. Today on CityLab: Federal Grants Aim to Reconnect Communities Divided by Highways

— Sri Taylor

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