I think I was dealing with one of those situations where racist/classist people in the 60s built highways to separate areas of town. There were small Asian and Central American grocery stores near me, where I had to cross 1 or 0 large roads… but the wealthier, mainly white area of town, with the Post Office and bar district, Safeway and Natural Grocers etc? Good luck. Good news is they’re currently redesigning it. For anyone familiar, I mean the interchange of I-25, Santa Fe and Alameda in Denver.
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This is half zoning, and half road design.
Too many areas in the US micromanage the built environment and force people to live unwalkably far from stores instead of having mixed-use zoning.
And then we have roads that are designed around the idea that the only people who matter are in cars.
I think I was dealing with one of those situations where racist/classist people in the 60s built highways to separate areas of town. There were small Asian and Central American grocery stores near me, where I had to cross 1 or 0 large roads… but the wealthier, mainly white area of town, with the Post Office and bar district, Safeway and Natural Grocers etc? Good luck. Good news is they’re currently redesigning it. For anyone familiar, I mean the interchange of I-25, Santa Fe and Alameda in Denver.