they told us we should envy. In the 1939 report Toll Roads and Free Roads, MacDonald and the Bureau of Public Roads called “the whole interior of” Baltimore a city that is “ripe” for these changes.12 Years later, a 1967 Traffic Quarterly paper brags about the plan to put 20 miles of freeways right through Baltimore’s slums. “Good news! An enormous stride has been taken toward creating heaven on earth.”13 That’s a bold statement Baltimore. Tell me more. “An examination of the present condition of the areas under consideration for a right-of-way shows that they are in a deplorable
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