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Why was one of Caltrans' most staunch advocates for sanity within Caltrans "reassigned"?
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Why was one of Caltrans' most staunch advocates for sanity within Caltrans "reassigned"?
And what state and regional agencies plan to do about it
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“It was a political drive-by shooting.” That is how Jessy McCrary described the effect of a new expressway on his town in the early 1960s. “Overtown was killed, without any concern from those with political powers at the time.” Later in the same documentary, Divided Highways, an engineer who helped build interstates admits, “I’d be upset if I had to move because of a freeway.” Then he shrugs, and adds, “Some people have to suffer; that’s the way it is sometimes.” The fact that McCrary is Black and the engineer is white is no coincidence. Divided Highways is a remarkable (a...