A crusade to defeat the legacy of highways rammed through poor neighborhoods - The Washington Post

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[U.S. Secretary of Transportation and former Charlotte, NC Mayor Anthony] Foxx has begun approaching governors and mayors with his message, and he plans to engage more of them after his speeches Tuesday and Wednesday. He defines the mission with three principles: use transportation to further opportunities for and within communities; recognize neighborhoods that have been wronged and work to strengthen them; and build new infrastructure to serve the communities they pass through.

“These principles sound very easy, but they’re really hard and they’re also very necessary if we’re going to make transportation work for everybody,” Foxx said. “It’s going to be the product of a longer conversation. I just think America’s ready for that.”

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A crusade to defeat the legacy of highways rammed through poor neighborhoods - The Washington Post

MoBikeFed comment: The challenges created by federal transportation funding and policy are indeed large. Through the early 1990s, federal transportation policy was focused almost exclusively on highways. In 1991, with the passage of ISTEA, this started to change and a multi-modal approach to transportation is slowly taking root.

It is good to see some work moving forward to address many of these issues at the next level--for now, much of the problem is that federal funding always favors new/bigger/expanded roadways, when much of what we need to do now is to maintain the system we have and improve it by creating greater access for more users making more, different transportation choices.