The Biden administration is offering money for projects to restore communities split by highways, and city leaders are scrambling to apply.
The stretch of U.S. Highway 281 separating downtown San Antonio from the near East Side was completed in 1978.The City of San Antonio plans to compete for a piece of $4 billion in federal funding aimed at reconnecting historically disadvantaged communities that have been divided by highways or other transportation facilities.
East Side neighborhoods like Dignowity Hill and Denver Heights were first split from the rest of downtown when train tracks were put in at the turn of the century. Though city leaders have long sought such solutions, the availability of federal funding to begin the process is relatively new under the Biden Administration.
“This country, by design in many ways, with malintent or benign neglect, has divided communities,” White House Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu said in an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival Friday. “Now we’re actually trying to reverse that, so there’s a substantial amount of money” going to cities for projects that reconnect communities.
San Antonio leaders have been working closely with the Biden administration on a host of infrastructure projects. Last year Landrieu
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