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Gleisbau am Magdeburger Damaschkeplatz ist bald beendet Die Gleisbauarbeiten am Damaschkeplatz sollen bis Anfang September 2021 beendet sein. Dann fahren auch wieder Straßenbahnen auf der Großen Diesdorfer Straße. Von Stefan Harter Die Gleisbauarbeiten im Magdeburger Adelheidring sollen bis Anfang September 2021 beendet sein. Foto: Stefan Harter Magdeburg - Die Gleisbauarbeiten am Damaschkeplatz gehen auf die Ziellinie. Anfang September wollen die Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe (MVB) die seit bald einem Jahr gesperrte Strecke durch den Adelheidring freigeben und damit vorerst den Umbau des ...

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape — the US interstate system changed the face of our country.  Earl Swift’s The Big Roads charts the creation of these essential American highways. From the turn-of-the-century car racing entrepreneur who spurred the citizen-led “Good Roads” movement, to the handful of driven engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they would work to the protests that erupted across the nation when highways reached the cities and found people unwilling to be uprooted in th...

Via PolitiFact: Even in cases where it’s hard to document whether racist thinking explicitly drove highway construction, the existence of divided and weakened neighborhoods in so many cities has been “racist in effect,” said Earl Swift, author of The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways. … “In hindsight, we correctly understand that a tacit racism was a part of many of the planners’ decisions,” said Tom Lewis, the author of Divided Highways and a professor of English at Skidmore College. “It was ra...