The Crosstown Expressway: A divisive Philadelphia highway that never was

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : But working-class Black residents in Hawthorne, self-described hippies and artists colonizing South Street, Society Hill settlers, and liberal anti-machine Democrats in Center City all stuck together and fought a proposal that kept popping up like a chain saw murderer in a horror movie.
47% : State authorities said that was unworkable.
38% : " Neighborhoods in other cities were not able to stop similar projects, and now, federal and state governments are spending billions in places like Detroit and Syracuse, N.Y., to demolish the kind of mistake Philadelphia almost made on South Street, in part with money from the 2021 infrastructure law that included a focus on highways in damaged neighborhoods.

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