Advocates Warn 'Reconnecting Communities' Program Could Actually Expand Highways
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The Claiborne Avenue Expressway.Photo: CNU, CC
A massive coalition of advocates is calling on the federal Department of Transportation to make sure a historic fund that could tear down harmful urban highways across America isn't used to expand or maintain them instead.On Thursday, a group of 114 organizations led by nonprofit America Walks published a fiery  open letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg demanding that the U.S. DOT prioritize truly transformative applications for the $1-billion Reconnecting Communities Program, which was created under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act last year.
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