Columbia University: It's Time to Address Our Segregationist Urban Highways
February 04, 2020
February 04, 2020
NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health issued the following news:
As motorists take the Triborough Bridge--the "traffic machine" that connects Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens--over the East River, the roadway makes an almost perpendicular turn north, away from the wealthy Upper East Side, before letting traffic out onto 125th Street in majority-minority East Harlem. Just a few miles away, the Northern State Parkway makes a 5.5-mile detou . . .
As motorists take the Triborough Bridge--the "traffic machine" that connects Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens--over the East River, the roadway makes an almost perpendicular turn north, away from the wealthy Upper East Side, before letting traffic out onto 125th Street in majority-minority East Harlem. Just a few miles away, the Northern State Parkway makes a 5.5-mile detou . . .