9 min

Syracuse Might Tear Down a Freeway Road Guy Rob's Transportation News

    • Automotive

Highway construction of the 1950s were a collision of value engineering, latent racism, and big government.  Bulldozers loomed over families living on Almond Street who weren't given any say.  A look at New York state's once-in-a-century opportunity to transform downtown Syracuse.




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Highway construction of the 1950s were a collision of value engineering, latent racism, and big government.  Bulldozers loomed over families living on Almond Street who weren't given any say.  A look at New York state's once-in-a-century opportunity to transform downtown Syracuse.




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9 min