New Orleans 'Monster' expressway highlights national debate over highway removal | Nightline
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- Longtime Treme residents have been sounding the alarm about the health dangers stemming from the Claiborne Avenue Expressway, but solving the problem is far from simple.
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Thank you. Now let’s interview the people displaced by I95 in Miami, I40 in Nashville, I85 in Montgomery,Alabama or I35 west in Minnesota. Let’s see the interstates in Tulsa and Kansas City. Syracuse, Milwaukee, Columbus, or how about admit that the federal government paid state and local racists to intentionally destroy black business districts and disrupt middle class families during a time when suburbs were built up and allowed to keep those same people and businesses out. How about admit the burning and drowning of black towns and economic districts, and the over 4,000 lynching incidents created the poverty, health, crime, education, and housing problems we see today
Lynching?
Don't make me laugh. 100 times as many Whites were Lynched on American history than blacks.
Go find another race-baiting dog whistle lol.
WOW............
God bless you for this post because I did not know those events - much love from New Orleans!!!!❤
Also damn near all the freeways built in the central L.A. basin.
We should have kept our streetcars and developed a high speed rail like other advance countries who care about the environment and their communities.
“Advanced” and New Orleans is an oxymoron
Highways should connect cities, not cut through them.
Sounds like the guy in the yellow shirt doesn't want the city to improve.
NO is dirty since forever in plenty of neighborhoods.
Wow, what a nightmare that must be for those people living near that monster. Excellent story yet sad for the people and their neighborhoods.
Didn’t they have trouble getting out of New Orleans during Katrina?
Gosh! I couldn't live there.
It looks like any other highway in the country. Probably any area that has a highway running through it has the same complaints as these people. Not a new problem for anyone.
I live by a highway and it’s not an issue nor does it make it dirty…maybe it’s the people in that neighborhood that’s keeping it fucked
You don't OWN where you lived apparently...
As a lifelong resident of New Orleans I just want to say thank you ABC❤. In addition to the health disaster the other tragedy here was the precious history that was gutted for this atrocious piece of construction.
What a devastating story. Thank you for sharing this.
The building of these freways was done on purpose. They did not care. They cut neighborhoods in two.
Interstate 10 along the Claiborne Expressway can be routed onto Interstate 610 easily.
sad part the entire city is filled with hwys! There's residents on 610 too. A complete disaster!
When we talk about why African Americans deserve reparations it is not just about slavery but the hundreds of eminent domain that intentionally destroyed the Black communities across the United States.
Another “devastating “ story in a devastated city
They knew exactly what they were doing.It's a curse for us blacks who live in areas of such places. They want us to believe it was put there to benefit us but it's harming us more than anything.Same as the plants/refineries in the area ...... .......
Great story let's keep up with it and speak on other places/things polluting our environment........
Limited access byways should have never been built through our cities and towns. From the start these routes should have been bypassed around cities with spurs. Wealthy and poor neighborhoods were destroyed alike. Many cities are removing them creating surface boulevards and reconnecting neighborhoods.
That high way will be removed
Not likely…New Orleans ain’t organized enough to build a solution for the traffic, like re-routing the traffic to another highway or a tunnel under the street
The Interstate highway was a blessing, but also a curse. They use something called a yellow book (not phone book) that had all the cities and routes for highways. Majority of those routes went through communities of color and communities of lesser means. The highways also destroyed a lot of small towns by moving traffic off u.s. highways
That was the whole point.
Exactly,as I just said they know what they were doing...........
@@linnettejoseph7027 So Freeways are racist now? lol
Yes, we watched the video! 😂🤣😂🤣
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403Right, freeways were invented to keep black folks down man sheeeit. If you guys wanna stop being a permanent underclass in society you gotta drop this inferiority complex. lol
May we have permission to screen this video to a live audience interested in highway removal advocacy in Buffalo, NY on November 8 or 9, 2023?
They should put up tall, wooden, freeway walls to reduce noise and dilute airborne emissions.
I am 43 years old and my Father has told the story for years of when I was just 4 years old I spent about six months of my life asking every adult why the "big road" had grass but no trees or flowers. I am to this day still baffled as to why states spend so much money keep nature tamed between major roads that often have unsafe guardrails or those awful slingshot wires
Escooter tunnel networks?
Vast Parking areas?
Infinite cars = infinite pollution
When I first moved to NOLA 3 years ago I thought driving under this expressway was really creepy. Now I see a lot of living happening there - because it's shaded and cooler. Festivals, food trucks, tailgating for Saints games, second lines, the homeless camps. I am not saying the highway should stay. It ruined a vibrant Black neighborhood. I just see New Orleanians trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Freeways should not be in inner cities, tear them down and replace them with housing and public space!
The reason they became cities in the first place was accessibility and nearby jobs.
@@ericeandco wrong, many american cities were thriving before the automobile, dont come at me with your car bot propaganda
Useless
@@RKreflex They throve because they had different transportation, like highly polluting horses. The roads cars use today were first cut for wagons which are the same basic form factor even back to Roman times. Whatever transport is used, roads will remain necessary for logistics and emergency response.
So we barely have money to repair bridges and roads as they are, but you expect us to tear it down, get rid of it, and build entire highway system somewhere else, buy the land to put that highway on, etc. Sorry, that really makes zero sense.
I-10 should be a great mass transit opportunity and showcase for the rest of the nation. (One can dream, can't I?).
Well good luck with that happening.. definitely not in her lifetime at least 😊
I have lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone mention this.. Guess they needed something to report on.
Let’s convert that one into a hiking trail and see how long it takes to get to work, or even a supermarket.
The I-10 highway is FAR more important than Treme. The highway will never be removed.😎
As much as I agree that the highway was built where it was because they knew that black people didn't have the power to fight back, unfortunately, any solution today would just be something to make people feel good. The government of Louisiana isn't going to tear down billions and billions and billions of dollars of highway. What would replace it? Where would that be? Sadly, the most black people in that area can expect is a pat on the head, while nothing substantive changes.
I like in New Orleans. That highway is never being removed, period
More BS to try and get you out of your vehicle.
Ummm. Okay.
...and if there was no "monster highwy" there would be the same amount of complainin' and lamenting because "the community ain't connected to the rest of the nation".
What’s the alternative to getting around? The woman will waste her last few years living for illusionary aspirations.
Remove a short stretch of the Claiborne-and traffic will likely still seek to go through there on a grid locked boulevard. Gentrification may also drive long term residents out, but unsure if there’s any medium to long term prospects for gentrification and yuppification in NOLA.