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RandomChurn t1_j9enrqx wrote

Reply to comment by laterbacon in The city has changed a lot in the last century by kayakhomeless

>Basically instead of ending downtown, route 10 would have continued through downtown, over College Hill, over the Henderson Bridge, through EP, and rejoin 195 somewhere around Seekonk.

Omg: horrific! 😳 Can't believe anyone anywhere ever could have thought this was a good idea

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laterbacon t1_j9fnrpk wrote

It's hard to imagine now, but College Hill was basically a slum in the mid 20th century. Plowing highways through "blighted" areas was seen as the ticket to revitalization because the horribly misguided thinking was that the big problem with cities was suburbanites not being able to drive to them.

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