Esta imagen (me recuerda a Guadalajara) es la "conceptualización" de los arquitectos que diseñaron la nunca construida Inner Belt Expressway (algo así como Autopista Interna [¿suena a Autopista Urbana?] en Boston. Lo que detuvo la construcción de esta obra fue la organización de distitnos grupos vecinales, académicos y actvisitas en la ciudad. En 1971, el gobernador de Massachusetts en televisión dio un mensaje en el que declaró una "moratoria" a la construcción de cualquier vía rápida. Desde entonces quedó la impresión de que pese a ser republicano (jeje) era un tipo con agallas, pues la decisión fue deifícil e implicó estar del mismo lado que su competidor el alcalde demócrata de la ciudad.
Un párrafo sobre el tema enel libro Common Ground de J. Anthony Lukas:
The movement to limit airport expansion wsa closely linked with opposition to new highway construction. If the business community traditionally favores planes and cars, workers genereally supportes buses and trains–not only because they could afford such conveyances, but because their neighborhoods were invariably the ones ripped up to makes way for new runways, highways and interchanges. By the late sixties in Boston a broad coalition of neighborhood groups had been forged to fight a number of new highway projects. It was a remarkably diverse coalition–dashiki -clad memebers of the Black united Front, longshoremen from Charelstown, housewives from Jamaica Plain, Cambridge Professors, and South End welfare mothers.
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Finally, in December 1969, Kevin White put his signature to Frank's bold letter calling on Governor Frank Sargent to proclaim "an immediate halt to any land-taking, demolition or construction now taking place or contemplated for new highways". Citing "the anguished objections of neighborhood residents," the Mayor said highway construction caused "the loss of housing, additional air pollution, disruption of long established neighborhoods, the disappearance of open space and the growing feeling among our citizens that government is an unfeeling, unthinking monolith unconcerned with their needs and unresponsive to their wishes".
Marcelo Ebrard (o al menos los delegados de M. Contreras, A Obregón y M. Hidalgo) podrían aprender un poco de aquella historia.