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Highway Robbery | Praise
“Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity
presents an intriguing account of how highway, rail, and bus planning and implementation
have exacerbated racial inequities in the United States. [Highway Robbery]
shows that … transportation planners have systematically hurt minority communities
by depriving them of valuable resources, investments, mobility and by concentrating
pollutants which contribute to abnormally high asthma rates…. This book is
a must read for urban planners, policy analysts, health planners, government officials,
and community organizations interested in reducing racial inequalities, building
strong healthy communities and having transportation appropriately meet the needs
of diverse populations.”
—J. Eugene Grigsby, III, President/CEO, National Health Foundation
“Highway Robbery is the aptly titled treatise-cum-outcry against
one of the most-ignored aspects of our [nation’s] racial inequity: our
pricey car-based policies. Highway subsidies have run roughshod over any notion
of racial justice and these authors have laid out both the crime and correction
for this discrimination in mobility, equity, and livability in a timely way.
—Jane Holtz Kay, author of Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took
Over America and How We Can Take It Back
“A warning from the front lines of transportation justice to mainstream
environmentalists and transportation power brokers alike: ‘Ignore us at your peril.’”
—Charles Komanoff, Right Of Way
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