Longtime Treme residents have been sounding the alarm about the health dangers stemming from the Claiborne Avenue Expressway, but solving the problem is far from simple.
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That high way will be removed
Gosh! I couldn't live there.
The I-10 highway is FAR more important than Treme. The highway will never be removed.😎
The building of these freways was done on purpose. They did not care. They cut neighborhoods in two.
When I first moved to NOLA 3 years ago I thought driving under this expressway was really creepy. Now I see a lot of living happening there – because it's shaded and cooler. Festivals, food trucks, tailgating for Saints games, second lines, the homeless camps. I am not saying the highway should stay. It ruined a vibrant Black neighborhood. I just see New Orleanians trying to make the best of a bad situation.
As a lifelong resident of New Orleans I just want to say thank you ABC❤. In addition to the health disaster the other tragedy here was the precious history that was gutted for this atrocious piece of construction.
We should have kept our streetcars and developed a high speed rail like other advance countries who care about the environment and their communities.
They always destroy Black neighborhoods.
Another “devastating “ story in a devastated city
When we talk about why African Americans deserve reparations it is not just about slavery but the hundreds of eminent domain that intentionally destroyed the Black communities across the United States.
As much as I agree that the highway was built where it was because they knew that black people didn't have the power to fight back, unfortunately, any solution today would just be something to make people feel good. The government of Louisiana isn't going to tear down billions and billions and billions of dollars of highway. What would replace it? Where would that be? Sadly, the most black people in that area can expect is a pat on the head, while nothing substantive changes.
New Orleans has been top 5 murder capital in the USA for the last 30 years and the neighborhood the Treme neighborhood is one of the hot zones of this violent crime. Maybe it's a good thing this bridge was built because it decrease violent carjackings and more violent crime. The city buses produce more pollution by the way.
It would be easier to buy the persecuted mansions in white boy neighborhoods.
In the 1950’s MI I- 75 destroyed Black Bottom, the prosperous African American businesses and thriving African American middle class community. Central Park sits on land that was taken by enminent domain that was a black and immigrant community. That is American as apple pie. This is why the Moms for Liberty and other such conservatives groups are just the new John Birch Society.
What a devastating story. Thank you for sharing this.
Didn’t they have trouble getting out of New Orleans during Katrina?
They should put up tall, wooden, freeway walls to reduce noise and dilute airborne emissions.
Great story let's keep up with it and speak on other places/things polluting our environment……..
They knew exactly what they were doing.It's a curse for us blacks who live in areas of such places. They want us to believe it was put there to benefit us but it's harming us more than anything.Same as the plants/refineries in the area …… …….
You don't OWN where you lived apparently…
Stop Crying… and cum up with Answers… We need Highways
🛣🚧 ~ It’s ridiculous to act like we can remove an entire interstate system. It is needed to transport people and tearing it down would probably cause just as much pollution. Until we get to the Star Trek age, if the Earth lasts that long, where we can transport people through a beam of light, highways will have to stay.
I live by a highway and it’s not an issue nor does it make it dirty…maybe it’s the people in that neighborhood that’s keeping it fucked
This is Ridiculousness upon ABSURDITY
Even without the overpass that neighborhood was long past it's due.
New Orleans has VERY REAL PROBLEMS including epidemic levels of
Car Jackings
Rapes
Murders
Home Invasions
The CLAIBORNE AVENUE OVERPASS is a massive NON ISSUE
Now, go there on aSunday and hope you don't get hit because stray bullet or by a teenager riding illegally on a 4 Wheeler.
PATHETIC!!!
I-10 should be a great mass transit opportunity and showcase for the rest of the nation. (One can dream, can't I?).
…and if there was no "monster highwy" there would be the same amount of complainin' and lamenting because "the community ain't connected to the rest of the nation".
Nobody is removing the freaking highway you stupid babies.
Interstate 10 along the Claiborne Expressway can be routed onto Interstate 610 easily.
The health risk is not the highway. All of it is the exhaust from cars. Most of which is the GARBAGE ADDED to fuel as a cheap means of taking care of other corporations waste products.
Here we goo again with this bullshit about urban sprawl, highways, cars and pollution. Do you have a cost effective alternative for people to commute? No. Then stfu.
No need to worry. Biden's sell out of America to China will replace ICE cars in place for electric cars. They will take place before this highway is removed. Hence it will not be removed and instead electrified.
Reduction in claimed budget is politics 101
Well good luck with that happening.. definitely not in her lifetime at least 😊
Those houses are just as ugly if not more so.
Thank you. Now let’s interview the people displaced by I95 in Miami, I40 in Nashville, I85 in Montgomery,Alabama or I35 west in Minnesota. Let’s see the interstates in Tulsa and Kansas City. Syracuse, Milwaukee, Columbus, or how about admit that the federal government paid state and local racists to intentionally destroy black business districts and disrupt middle class families during a time when suburbs were built up and allowed to keep those same people and businesses out. How about admit the burning and drowning of black towns and economic districts, and the over 4,000 lynching incidents created the poverty, health, crime, education, and housing problems we see today
The Interstate highway was a blessing, but also a curse. They use something called a yellow book (not phone book) that had all the cities and routes for highways. Majority of those routes went through communities of color and communities of lesser means. The highways also destroyed a lot of small towns by moving traffic off u.s. highways
The government does everything in their power to destroy black communities. Look it up.
More BS to try and get you out of your vehicle.
What’s the alternative to getting around? The woman will waste her last few years living for illusionary aspirations.
Limited access byways should have never been built through our cities and towns. From the start these routes should have been bypassed around cities with spurs. Wealthy and poor neighborhoods were destroyed alike. Many cities are removing them creating surface boulevards and reconnecting neighborhoods.
I like in New Orleans. That highway is never being removed, period
It looks like any other highway in the country. Probably any area that has a highway running through it has the same complaints as these people. Not a new problem for anyone.
I have lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone mention this.. Guess they needed something to report on.
Freeways should not be in inner cities, tear them down and replace them with housing and public space!
Big mama needs to learn how to control her eating problems… Its killing her 1000 times faster than the overpass!!!!
Let’s convert that one into a hiking trail and see how long it takes to get to work, or even a supermarket.
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“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 3.
“And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”
Gospel of Luke, chapter 21, verse 8 to 11.
“All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.”
Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 8 to 10.
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Gospel of Luke, chapter 21, verse 25 to 28.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 16 to 18.
“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”
First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 3 to 6.
“Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.”
Acts, chapter 8, verse 22.
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 3.
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Gospel of Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17.
“After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”
Hosea, chapter 6, verse 2.
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8.
“knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 3 to 4.
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 3.
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 16 to 17.
“in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 52.
“I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”
Gospel of Luke, chapter 17, verse 34 to 36.
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This is an absurd story. Don’t want highway pollution, don’t live by one. For God sakes. Complain, complain, complain.
👢🩸💉🧠🩸🌍🩸समस्त आम सामान्य अमेरीकन एवं अन्य पर्सन दूर हट या आत्महत्या करले फैमिली सहित,,,,, धार्मिक खौफनाक शैतानी रूहानी मैटर है जो सामने दिखेगा विभत्स अकाल मौत खौफनाक तकलीफपूर्ण मानसिक शारीरिक अपाहिज ग्रस्तता का भागी होगा,,, that's it.
👠🩸💉🧠🌍🩸⚰लाभ अय्याशी हेतु नीच अमेरियो द्वारा ही समस्त अंतर्राष्ट्रीय स्लाटर हाउस ड्रग्स केमिकल नशाखोरी यूएफओ एलियन समस्त घृणित बिजनेस पॉर्न इंडस्ट्रीज आदि का शैतानी पजेसन विक्षिप्तता मे प्रारंभ किया गया जिसके कारण पूरा विश्व नर्क बन गया है,,, और दूसरे प्लेनेट पर भागने का वैज्ञानिक पागलपन किया जा रहा है,,,किंतु सत्य से महाकाल का औकात ना है भागने का तो,,,,,,,,,,🩸💀🩸
Nothing to see here. Just a bunch of overweight people complaining about something that is fundamental to the economy of the city yet offering no solutions besides completely tearing it down.