Racist roads

Hoosier Daddy said:
making ports more efficient is not micromanaging private companies. adding more docks, more warehouses, other improvements that will help the process.

how does what biden propose in any way restrict private companies, douchebag? can you read- from the article you sourced-

The $17 billion will “improve infrastructure at coastal ports, inland ports and waterways, and land ports of entry along the border,” the White House said.

Many U.S. ports have bridge or depth limitations that restrict their ability to receive larger vessels, while a surge of cargo is straining land operations at some ports.

The project aims:

* To identify projects for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction at coastal ports and inland waterways within the next 60 days.

* To provide a roadmap for more than $4 billion in funding to repair outdated infrastructure and to deepen harbors for larger cargo ships.

* To prioritize key ports of entry for modernization and expansion within the next 90 days.

* To identify $3.4 billion in investments to upgrade obsolete inspection facilities and allow more efficient international trade through the northern and southern borders.

The Biden administration aims to alleviate congestion at the Port of Savannah by funding a project by the Georgia Port Authority.

That will allow the state to reallocate more than $8 million to convert existing inland facilities into five pop-up container yards in Georgia and North Carolina.

The Port of Savannah will transfer containers further inland so that they can be closer to final destinations, a move that will free more dock space.
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except the blockage isn't being caused by infrastructure.........the infrastructure didn't change in one year........
 
RB 60 said:
Hoosier Daddy said:
most are owned by foreign entities. a lot by china, a lot by middle eastern countries.

Why Are Any U.S. Ports Owned or Operated by Foreign ...https://www.huffpost.com › entry › why-are-any-us-po...
Feb 24, 2006 — According to the New York Times, foreign-based companies own and/or manage over 30% of US port terminals. According to Time Magazine, over 80% ...

80% of US Ports Already Foreign-Owned - MundoMaritimo.nethttps://www.mundomaritimo.net › noticias › 80-of-us-p...
Most of the terminals at America's major ports are already foreign-owned, according to a senior official with the largest U.S.-owned ports operator, ...
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So the US government doesn't own those ports, dumb fuck...
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Sooooo, not Biden's fault? LOL


US and State regulations govern those ports. If the ports aren't following regulations, then it's an enforcement action.
 
Hoosier Daddy said:
most are owned by foreign entities. a lot by china, a lot by middle eastern countries.

Why Are Any U.S. Ports Owned or Operated by Foreign ...https://www.huffpost.com › entry › why-are-any-us-po...
Feb 24, 2006 — According to the New York Times, foreign-based companies own and/or manage over 30% of US port terminals. According to Time Magazine, over 80% ...

80% of US Ports Already Foreign-Owned - MundoMaritimo.nethttps://www.mundomaritimo.net › noticias › 80-of-us-p...
Most of the terminals at America's major ports are already foreign-owned, according to a senior official with the largest U.S.-owned ports operator, ...
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your link....
JUDGE: TRUMP CAN’T SHIELD JAN. 6 DOCUMENTS
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PostmodernProphet said:
Hoosier Daddy said:
making ports more efficient is not micromanaging private companies. adding more docks, more warehouses, other improvements that will help the process. ...
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except the blockage isn't being caused by infrastructure.........the infrastructure didn't change in one year........
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Correct. It's almost two years of Pandemic. Only fucking morons and other assorted dumbass can't see it.

There are human, social and economic issues that all come together to create a Gordian Knot. Thanks Trump!

https://www.tradeeconomics.com/iec_publication/economic-impact-trade-covid-19/
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The US economy is the largest...at least this year.
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AProudLefty said:
You didn't answer my question how he is wrong. Saying "nah uh nuh" doesn't cut it.
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Everything he's claiming is wrong. But it is far more involved to demonstrate how than it is for him to make unsubstantiated claims. If you bother to look at a map, the first thing you see is that interstates normally and regularly go through the downtown of cities they go through. In many cases, by the 50's when this system was in full swing, many inner city neighborhoods were minority majority ones.
If you were planning an interstate, and had to go through a city center with it...

Then he makes up bullshit about sizing underpasses and tunnels on interstates. These were standardized early in the program and required to have certain clearances for trucks, etc. There was never, and Buttplug can't prove differently, some conspiracy to make some smaller or lower to prevent movement of minorities from one area to another. That is an absurd claim on the face of it.

Even Wiki has these general specs listed. These have been the norm since the beginning of the interstate system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards

Yes, some have changed over the years but there were standards right from the start that had to be met system-wide. Buttplug is talking out his ass here.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Everything he's claiming is wrong. But it is far more involved to demonstrate how than it is for him to make unsubstantiated claims. If you bother to look at a map, the first thing you see is that interstates normally and regularly go through the downtown of cities they go through. In many cases, by the 50's when this system was in full swing, many inner city neighborhoods were minority majority ones.
If you were planning an interstate, and had to go through a city center with it...

Then he makes up bullshit about sizing underpasses and tunnels on interstates. These were standardized early in the program and required to have certain clearances for trucks, etc. There was never, and Buttplug can't prove differently, some conspiracy to make some smaller or lower to prevent movement of minorities from one area to another. That is an absurd claim on the face of it.

Even Wiki has these general specs listed. These have been the norm since the beginning of the interstate system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards

Yes, some have changed over the years but there were standards right from the start that had to be met system-wide. Buttplug is talking out his ass here.
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the entire piece went way over your head, you didnt understand any of it.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Everything he's claiming is wrong. But it is far more involved to demonstrate how than it is for him to make unsubstantiated claims. If you bother to look at a map, the first thing you see is that interstates normally and regularly go through the downtown of cities they go through. In many cases, by the 50's when this system was in full swing, many inner city neighborhoods were minority majority ones.
If you were planning an interstate, and had to go through a city center with it...

Then he makes up bullshit about sizing underpasses and tunnels on interstates. These were standardized early in the program and required to have certain clearances for trucks, etc. There was never, and Buttplug can't prove differently, some conspiracy to make some smaller or lower to prevent movement of minorities from one area to another. That is an absurd claim on the face of it.

Even Wiki has these general specs listed. These have been the norm since the beginning of the interstate system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards

Yes, some have changed over the years but there were standards right from the start that had to be met system-wide. Buttplug is talking out his ass here.
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T. A. Gardner said:
What's that got to do with how highways were designed and built?
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If you cannot understand the picture then I cannot help you.

There's a reason 'highways do not go in straight lines.' How racism is built into American infrastructure.

Experts say highways and infrastructure were built at the expense of BIPOC neighborhoods by design.

Those neighborhoods still suffer the economic and health consequences today.

Ora Lee Patterson grew up in the Rondo, a St. Paul, Minnesota, neighborhood where the city's Black community were based. It was akin to Harlem, with vibrant social life and thriving small businesses.

But then, the Federal Highway Act of 1956 allowed the state to claim large swathes of homes and businesses using eminent domain.

The state razed the neighborhood's main street to make way for Interstate 94, a 1,500-mile-long highway connecting the Great Lakes region to the west.

Patterson's home was seized, and she and her family were forced out of the Rondo along with other Black residents. Some homes were bulldozed, while others were moved and resold. The once-prosperous community withered.

"Highways have destroyed so many viable business corridors in people of color communities," he said. "If you look at how highways were built, they avoided affluent white neighborhoods and went through poor neighborhoods and people of color neighborhoods."

Many issues can be traced back to the practice known as "redlining" in the mid-20th century, when the US government assigned neighborhoods different levels of investment risk based on residents' race and income. Federal regulators would only back mortgages and subsidize housing in neighborhoods designated low-risk — usually affluent white neighborhoods.

Low-income, Black, and immigrant neighborhoods were usually designated high-risk, often explicitly for racial reasons. Mapping Inequality's interactive redlining map reveals common terms federal regulators used to justify blacklisting certain neighborhoods from government funding opportunities: "colored people," "negroes," "foreigners," "infiltration of lower-grade population."

https://www.insider.com/pete-buttigieg-is-right-racism-is-built-into-american-infrastructure-2021-4

You are not fooling anyone, T. A.
 
anonymoose said:
Interesting. The male secretary of transportation who was on maternity leave returns to confront racist roads when there is a complete breakdown of the supply chain.
We have entered the Twilight Zone.
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Why? The supply chain is private hands, not the government's.
 
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