I really wish urbanists would stop blaming transportation infrastructure for poverty and racism.<p>The article itself mentions that this poverty is systemic to dozens of issues in the area (zoning rules, poor public transit, suburbs not having section 8 housing, loosing 10,000 jobs in three years, and many more).<p>Eliminating a freeway does nothing to address any of those issues.<p>---<p>And everyone knows this. What &quot;ReThink81&quot; <i>really</i> wants is to take that public infrastructure land, sell it to developers for cheap so they can make a lot of profit off building luxury condos and luxury retail&#x2F;commercial spaces.<p>It will be a happy accident when the rise in property values &quot;just so happens&quot; to displace a number of the existing poor residents.<p>See : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rethink81.org&#x2F;vision&#x2F;vision-images" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rethink81.org&#x2F;vision&#x2F;vision-images</a>