When they built I-35 they deliberately ran it through middle class black neighborhoods in order to destroy them. https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1266787791733694465">https://twitter.com/tplohetsk...

I have never seen something like this in Austin.

P.S. Guess who bought up all that land after the people left? UT.

I& #39;m going to mute this, but for folks asking for the receipts, in addition to the many replies below confirming that this is was a standard practice in American cities, here are TXDOT archive photos: https://twitter.com/Knitlife/status/1266815814931566595">https://twitter.com/Knitlife/...

And here is an article detailing the history and future of how TX has used infrastructure to disrupt neighborhoods. https://twitter.com/megankimble/status/1266834683087773699">https://twitter.com/megankimb...

And finally, here is an article from the @AustinChronicle that includes the infamous passage from the 1928 city planning document that explicitly recommends I-35 as "the nearest approach to the solution of the race segregation problem". https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2010-02-05/953471/">https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2010...