@MoveMpls@MaryMorseMarti@BethOsborneT4A@T4America@Regan_Felice Just the coolest, most thoughtful and urgent stuff from Keith Baker and Reconnect Rondo, showing the theft of intergenerational wealth that directly targeted Black Minnesotans in St Paul with the construction of I-94. "We can quantify the loss." #Road2RuinSummit
ok, buckle up, folks. We're about to get started w/ the Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion joint meeting of the Executive Steering Committee, Historic Albina Advisory Board, and the Community Advisory Oversight Committee.
starts at 4, we'll be livetweeting
to our knowledge, it's the first time the ESC (largely elected officials) the HAAB (Albina community members) and the COAC (contractors) have all met on same meeting
ODOT's been rumored to be intending to use this meeting to push back on community groups calling for better caps
We share the opinions of our pals at City Observatory:
NMF asked ODOT repeatedly over last few months about the freeway width. ODOT lied, and repeatedly said if we wanted to know more, we'd need to do a FOIA.
Unbeknownst to them, we already did a FOIA, and knew they were lying:
@OregonDOT First document is from 2017; 2nd is from 2019. It took *months* of FOIA efforts to get our hands on these very basic documents showing what @oregondot intends to build in the Albina neighborhood.
It shouldn't take months of legal posturing to find out what ODOT intends to build