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Regina "Mama Ravin" Lawson, 75, founder of The Herbal Healing Hut lived in the thriving Black Bottom community as a child with her family, but was displaced several times once the I-375 freeway was built in Detroit, Mich. Sylvia Jarrus for NPR hide caption

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Removing the highway is the easy part. Reconnecting the community is harder.

July 4, 2024 • In Detroit, a one-mile freeway is slated for removal, where a Black neighborhood once stood. It's part of an effort to reimagine divisive infrastructure — but the plan itself has been contentious.

Detroit tries to turn a freeway into a boulevard

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Trump's Highway Plan May Face Same Old Roadblocks In Congress

A road repair blocks traffic in Springfield, Ill. as Congress tries to decide how to pay for President Trump's ambitious spending plan to rebuild roads, bridges, railroads and airports. Seth Perlman/AP hide caption

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Trump's Highway Plan May Face Same Old Roadblocks In Congress

February 2, 2017 • Wednesday's House hearing on transportation and infrastructure became a debate over how to pay for Trump's trillion-dollar plan. One GOP lawmaker called the it "the 900-pound gorilla in the room."