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How highways wrecked American cities
The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation.
Posted 8 years ago by chaubursin in category: history
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anonymousone - 8 years ago [ Reply ]
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Thank you, Vox. We count on you to get a leftist's point of view (with all the greedy-corporations garbage and not-so-thinly veiled racial insinuations) in a short hit piece. No mention of the fruits of this highway system. And what might the unforeseen costs be if we decided against it? We could easily make this into 3 documentary if you did, because it would be filled with actual substance.

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biased.com (guest) - 8 years ago [ Reply ]
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Cars are evil, highways are evil and only protesters are right. Why overthink an solution for the majority when we could only brought a simple one from a minority. If you have used car once in your life and you have a minimum of rationality, you know highways are the fastest way to travel in a urban environment. I'm so tired of those leftist who thinks the sun doest not exist anymore because they only see the clouds.

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spydyrman - 8 years ago [ Reply ]
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Video should be called "How highways saved American cities, but wrecked neighborhoods." The highway system completely changed America's production abilities, just as the continental railroads did before, and planes are doing now. (See "The Men Who Built America" for great historical train info) Nothing is black and white, and videos like this are as bad as whitewashing on the other side.

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spydyrman - 8 years ago [ Reply ]
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"So why did american cities agree to build highways that were bad for cities?" LOL, that sums up the whole nature of this video.

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spydyrman - 8 years ago
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  or just rename it to "Two white guys talk about white guilt as it relates to the highway infrastructure."  

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