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Over the intervening months, there have been a plethora of articles in multiple news outlets limning this particular issue from a variety of perspectives. The movement toward prioritizing social equity in transportation planning-and even funding-is gaining strength to the degree that one wonders if it will be long before ubiquity sets in. One such example is right now in the planning in Tennessee. According to a recent piece by the Nashville Tennessean's Yue Stella Yu, a plan is coming together, spearheaded by Metro Nashville, to build a large-scale connecting "cap" over I-40, in effort to bring back together the predominantly Black communities that lay to the north and south that are presently separated from one another by the interstate. This would be located in the Jefferson Street area, a historic section of the city bolstered by Black-owned businesses, churches, and restaurants, and home to a once-thriving music scene that helped give the world Etta James, Little Richard, and Jimi Hendrix. The cap would run approximately 3.4 acres and provide green space, multimodal access for bicyclists and pedestrians, and various outlets for community activities, as well as ample areas of respite from heat and noise. |