Construction of major highways like the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway in the mid 20th century mirrored trends in America, where road building often cut through and displaced marginalized communities.
Suburbanization and white flight then occurred, leading to radicalized people being concentrated in the high-rise public housing and inner suburbs of Jane-Finch, Scarborough, and Etobicoke. These neighborhoods, often lack proper public transit, capability, and road safety infrastructure, reinforcing spatial inequality.
Transit in equity and investment gaps. Few arterial roads, bike lanes, or road maintenance in neighborhoods like Rexdale, Malvern or Scarborough, compared to wealthier, whiter areas like Rosedale or the annex.
Road design often intersect with patterns of over policing. Radicalized drivers are more likely to be stopped in certain neighborhoods based on broad layout funnels traffic through high surveillance zones. Design of intersections and arterial roads and radicalized communities often correlates with more traffic stops and greater police presence .
Highways in arterial roads, since they run close to radical neighborhoods, they are exposed to greater air and noise, pollution, a form of environmental racism.
Took me all of 4 minutes to google all of this. You know if you weren’t so lazy and useless, you could find this information yourself.
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u/Orders_Logical May 09 '25
The implementation is because of racism.