“The I-90 expansion battle, which included talk of a second bridge, additional tunnels and a wider freeway, is a case in point. The project ran into resistance on affluent Mercer Island, where mostly white residents objected to a bigger highway through the heart of their community. Bowing to pressure, officials eventually agreed to lid the highway as it passed through the more populated commercial center and to build a public park on top (what is now Aubrey Davis Park).”
Oh horse hockey. People keep saying that and it doesn’t happen. Inheriting what? How many people you know who are wealthy because their parents died and left them a house?
More mythology. Why do they build highways in the city? Maybe because that’s where people are stacked on top of each other and they have to to be able to move?
To what parts of the city do these highways often lead?
“Moreover, while the freeways opened up routes from the suburbs to the city centres, there were often a conspicuous lack of entrances in black communities. The gigantic concrete ditch in West Baltimore is a perfect example: sunken, without exits – it effectively seals off one side from the other.”
The take away is that most black people don’t live where people in the boonies refer to as the sticks … where much of the interstate highway system in fact still resides if you exclude the costal areas.
Exit ramp at 175th north Seattle.
Another one at 145th…30 blocks
Next one at Northgate 110th…35 blocks
Then 85th, 25 blocks
Then 50th, 35 blocks. Which BTW splits White Neighborhoods.
Then you have Union South Seattle
Dearborn
South Colombian Way
Then one other exit before you get to Boeing field. Can’t remember which exit that is.
Then Boeing access road that takes you to Martin Luther King Jr way.
The next exit is Interurban ave.
Then exit to 405, which 1/4 mile to Interurban ave again that turns into Valley freeway.
Then about 1/2 mile 167 that turns into Rainier Ave.
So as you can your theory is all BS. In fact since that area with I-5 and I-405 interchange is heavy industrialized their is actually more access to freeway then north Seattle.
