Petition updateCoalition of Concerned Residents, PJDLink Action Group Malaysia.Lesson for Klang valley - How highways wrecked American cities - are you prepared?
Coalition Against PJDLink highway (CAP)Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Feb 10, 2021

[2016] 

This video shows us what happened in USA 6 years ago. The USA already knew that highways is not the only way for transport. This shows the of what can happen to M'sia's Klang valley highways 20-30 years down the road, when the highways get old, and time for renewal happens. 

 

The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation.  Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO

The 48,000 miles of interstate highway that would be paved across the country during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s were a godsend for many rural communities.

But those highways also gutted many cities, with whole neighborhoods torn down or isolated by huge interchanges and wide ribbons of asphalt. Wealthier residents fled to the suburbs, using the highways to commute back in by car.

That drained the cities' tax bases and hastened their decline. So why did cities help build the expressways that would so profoundly decimate them?

The answer involves a mix of self-interested industry groups, design choices made by people far away, a lack of municipal foresight, and outright institutional racism.

Read more on Vox: https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917

And see before-and-after maps of how highways changed cities like Cincinnati, Detroit, and Minneapolis: https://www.vox.com/2014/12/29/746055 

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