Groups across the country are fighting to keep highways from being built or expanded through Black and Latino neighborhoods.
advocacy group, said she’s lived in Allendale for more than 15 years after fleeing New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
for the project. State leaders have been working on the plan since at least 2009. But Wiley said Allendale Strong has been excluded from conversations about the plan. “Allendale Strong does not have equity of voice in the process. We are treated as though we do not count. They ignore our informed input,” she said.
Neither the Northwest Louisiana Council of Governments nor the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development immediately responded to a request for comment. “At the time we’re trying to repair damage that we’ve caused, we also need to stop causing new damage,” Crowther said, explaining how the network came to be. “We hadn’t actually stopped building new highways that still harm communities, predominantly communities of color.
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