wasn’t wrong.b Future senator Moynihan scoffs at the notion that we didn’t know what would happen to these cities: “It is not true, as is sometimes alleged, that the sponsors of the interstate program ignored the consequences it would have in the cities. Nor did they simply acquiesce in them. They exulted in them.”6 The 1956 Clay Commission Reportc that President Dwight D. Eisenhower forwarded to Congress praises urban freeways for helping “to create a revolution in living habits.” Because of these urban freeways, “our cities have spread into suburbs, dependent on the automobile for their
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