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sweetener__ OP t1_iv35u3o wrote

Reply to comment by Mountain_Bill5743 in Last night on America x Federal by sweetener__

Are the planters there to help reduce speeding? I’ve always wondered. I never really drove over there except to go to Hudson Street. I can’t imagine navigating in the snow would be great.

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Mountain_Bill5743 t1_iv484cf wrote

It's actually super hard to find any information on the planters. I'm sure places like the WBNA have a good history on it, though.

I want to say that some social media site had someone referencing that the planters were installed back when that area was more of a cut through for people speeding when it was a lower income neighborhood. Less from a neighborhood quality of life standpoint and more to diffuse presumed nefarious activities.-- I have no source on this, only a rumor.

Only in recent years has the neighborhood massively gentrified-- even the change in the past 10 has been wild. Most zoning decisions over there seemed to be exclusionary back in the day, such as the neighborhood air quality being impacted by the 6-10 connector (and subsequent toxic soil), so I'd love to know more from an official source about how and why those ended up there.

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