What the Collapse of This Highway Teaches Us About Poor City Planning
“For years, surrounding neighborhoods voted against funding and helping MARTA expand due to what some suspected were racially motivated reasons. ‘The votes against MARTA were not the only evidence of the role of race in Atlanta’s transportation plans. The interstate highways were designed to gouge their way through black neighborhoods,’ Atlanta magazine reported.
Christopher B. Leinberger, professor at George Washington University, told Atlanta magazine that the city’s inhabitants believed ‘that the car was the be-all and end-all forever. The other part was the basic racism that still molds how Atlanta is built.'”