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Communities Can Tear Down Harmful Highways with $1 Billion in New Federal Grants

Highway construction divided, polluted, and stunted economic development in Black and brown neighborhoods across the country. USDOT's Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program offers the resources to rethink those roads.

September 19, 2022

By Byron Nicholas, AICP

Highway construction divided, polluted, and stunted economic development in Black and brown neighborhoods across the country. USDOT's Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program offers the resources to rethink those roads.

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