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.

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

@LaGrandeBayou

9 ай бұрын

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.

@linnettejoseph7027

9 ай бұрын

WOW............

@TJLSUDAD

9 ай бұрын

God bless you for this post because I did not know those events - much love from New Orleans!!!!❤

@victorparker308

8 ай бұрын

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.

@tswagg504

9 ай бұрын

“Advanced” and New Orleans is an oxymoron

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.

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?

Interstate 10 along the Claiborne Expressway can be routed onto Interstate 610 easily.

@datgirlsaintsational831

8 ай бұрын

sad part the entire city is filled with hwys! There's residents on 610 too. A complete disaster!

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 ...... .......

Highways should connect cities, not cut through them.

Great story let's keep up with it and speak on other places/things polluting our environment........

They should put up tall, wooden, freeway walls to reduce noise and dilute airborne emissions.

@NebulaBull

9 ай бұрын

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

That high way will be removed

@tswagg504

9 ай бұрын

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

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.

Gosh! I couldn't live there.

Wow, what a nightmare that must be for those people living near that monster. Excellent story yet sad for the people and their neighborhoods.

Escooter tunnel networks? Vast Parking areas? Infinite cars = infinite pollution

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

@1MrAngel1

9 ай бұрын

That was the whole point.

@linnettejoseph7027

9 ай бұрын

Exactly,as I just said they know what they were doing...........

@BoogerSugar420

9 ай бұрын

@@linnettejoseph7027 So Freeways are racist now? lol

@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403

9 ай бұрын

Yes, we watched the video! 😂🤣😂🤣

@BoogerSugar420

9 ай бұрын

​@@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

Didn’t they have trouble getting out of New Orleans during Katrina?

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.

NO is dirty since forever in plenty of neighborhoods.

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.

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.

I-10 should be a great mass transit opportunity and showcase for the rest of the nation. (One can dream, can't I?).

Freeways should not be in inner cities, tear them down and replace them with housing and public space!

@ericeandco

9 ай бұрын

The reason they became cities in the first place was accessibility and nearby jobs.

@RKreflex

9 ай бұрын

@@ericeandco wrong, many american cities were thriving before the automobile, dont come at me with your car bot propaganda

@martinkihara5544

9 ай бұрын

Useless

@Comm0ut

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@iMatti00

9 ай бұрын

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 have lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone mention this.. Guess they needed something to report on.

Well good luck with that happening.. definitely not in her lifetime at least 😊

Let’s convert that one into a hiking trail and see how long it takes to get to work, or even a supermarket.

You don't OWN where you lived apparently...

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

The I-10 highway is FAR more important than Treme. The highway will never be removed.😎

I like in New Orleans. That highway is never being removed, period

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.

More BS to try and get you out of your vehicle.

@iMatti00

9 ай бұрын

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.

@davestewart2067

9 ай бұрын

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.