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New push underway to build a bike lane across the entire Bay Bridge
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Unofficial rendering of shared-use path across the western span of the Bay Bridge.Eric Tuvel / Wikimedia Commons
Cyclists in New York City were recently overjoyed to hear that both the Brooklyn and Queensboro bridges will be getting dedicated, two-way bike lanes. Now, cycling advocates in the Bay Area are pushing for a similar goal a bike lane crossing the entire 4.5 miles of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The path can be built for less than two days worth of BART’s annual budget and will take only two to three months to build with available funding, reads a new petition launched by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. The cycling and pedestrian advocacy group believe the project could could take just one year and $10 million to complete, KCBS reported.
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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 (and sometimes entertaining) look at the history of this nation’s mid-century highway-building frenzy. The smart engineers and road designers constructing a post-war society “could do no wrong,” and were given a free hand to build what the film calls the biggest infrastructure project in human history: the U.S. interstate system.
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