Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

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The United States' transportation infrastructure faces significant challenges, with aging highways, deteriorating roads, and unreliable commuter rail systems. In Dividing Lines, scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer explores the historical and ongoing relationship between race and transportation planning. She argues that before meaningful rebuilding can occur, it's important to consider how racial dynamics have shaped infrastructure decisions from the early twentieth century to today. According to Archer, while the Civil Rights movement and the end of Jim Crow laws in the 1960s marked a major shift in American society, they did not eliminate all forms of segregation. She suggests that in the absence of explicitly discriminatory laws, some public officials and planners used infrastructure as a means of maintaining separation between communities. For example, large roads without…

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