The first time Willie Dixon lost a home to a highway was during the freeway construction boom in the 1960s. Forty years later he lost a second home to an expansion of the same freeway in Tampa, Fla. By the time Dixon lost his second house, he was 90.
The tree-studded lot with a “For sale” sign zoomed into focus on Google Earth seven years ago as Cooper sat at a computer inside her U.S. Air Force office in Afghanistan.
Some negative effects of the freeway building boom, including examples of intentional racism, are widely acknowledged today. The country’s appetite for new urban interstates has waned, and many transportation officials have taken steps to limit the harm. An aerial view of Link Road in the Independence Heights neighborhood of Houston. Independence Heights is one of the oldest Black communities in Texas, and 165 more homes could be taken in planned interstate expansions.
In Los Angeles and Orange counties, construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the last of three Interstate 5 expansions that moved 850 families from mostly Latino neighborhoods.When the 101 Freeway was built through Boyle Heights in Los Angeles in the 1950s, Alexandria Contreras’ great-grandparents were left with six roaring lanes a block away.
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