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Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies

  • Written by Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
imageInterstate 980 cuts off West Oakland, Calif., at top, from other Oakland neighborhoods.Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

The US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill now moving through Congress will bring money to cities for much-needed investments in roads, bridges, public transit networks, water infrastructure, electric...

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