Baltimore’s Highway to Nowhere

The federal government has approved Baltimore’s request for $2 million to begin addressing damage done by the “Highway to Nowhere,” a project that uprooted communities and is regarded by Mayor Scott as a “poster child” for racial and economic inequities.https://t.co/mA4LdbhScE

— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) February 21, 2023

How do you divide a community–build a highway through it.
Baltimore's 'Highway to Nowhere' splits West Baltimore, displaced nearly 1000 families when built in late 1960's.
City now applying for federal "Reconnecting Communities" funding to deconstruct it pic.twitter.com/93xv0rsEzx

— Jayne Miller (@jemillerbalt) July 1, 2022

Yesterday I joined our federal delegation at the Highway to Nowhere in West Baltimore in support of the Reconnecting Communities Act. I am proud to join forces to right the historical wrongs caused by inequitable policy approaches toward transportation and infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/K0m3Ynj3ce

— Brandon M. Scott (@MayorBMScott) May 18, 2021

The infrastructure package to be signed by President Joe Biden has a number of provisions of importance to Maryland, including a program to reconnect communities like those in Baltimore split by the "Highway to Nowhere."https://t.co/Yz2CeRNCPJ

— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) November 8, 2021

Decades ago, Baltimore wiped out a whole black neighborhood for a highway that never got finished. More recently, the Highway to Nowhere was gonna offer parh for a new rail transit line, but it was killed. Now @DanRodricks floats new idea: a glorious park.https://t.co/Sy4h26ERBO

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 22, 2019

Baltimore’s Department of Transportation announced Friday that it applied for a grant of up to $2 million from the Federal Highway Administration to tear down the city’s infamous “Highway to Nowhere” expressway.https://t.co/oUhYutGhl7

— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) October 26, 2022

In "Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City," author Antero Pietila estimates 94,000 people—mostly Black residents—were dislocated from 1965 to 1980 by Baltimore expressway building, “slum clearance,” and “urban renewal” efforts.https://t.co/Il096BfvzS

— Ron Cassie (@ron_cassie) June 15, 2023