Baltimore leaders apply for federal funding to demolish "Highway to Nowhere"

By Bryna Zumer

Now the Baltimore Department of Transportation and other leaders say they're planning to heal 50 years of damage done by infrastructure. Mayor Brandon Scott and Congressman Kweisi Mfume note the highway destroyed more than 900 homes and displaced 1,500 people in what was a predominantly Black middle-class area. It had been intended to connect I-70 with interstates 83 and 95, but that never happened.

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