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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
I have never seen something like this in Austin.
P.S. Guess who bought up all that land after the people left? UT.
I'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
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
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/
