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pk10534 t1_itw6o16 wrote

Reply to comment by Charming_Wulf in Envisioned refurbished harbor (circa 1950’s, via City Archives) by Reeyuuk

Oh yeah, this particular highway might have totally destroyed neighborhoods in this instance. My answer was more of just a general take on why highways at that time were sometimes aligned on the water. I am very, very glad it did not get built lol. The damage the "highway to nowhere" caused the west side is a great example of why highways are so harmful. I wish the city had built out its metro network like DC did, who knows where we'd be today

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Charming_Wulf t1_itw7kff wrote

It saddened me when I learned that there was originally supposed a second north-south subway line in Baltimore. Transit funding drying up and Anne Arundel County racists (shocked Pikachu) helped to kill that line though.

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pk10534 t1_itw8fz3 wrote

Oh it’s painful to read what AA county residents said about what would happen if public transit were completed. I mean just straight up blatant racism.

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