“Transportation should connect, not divide, people and communities,” said Pete Buttigieg, U.S.
The City of Kansas City, Missouri, will develop a comprehensive plan to increase mobility and connectivity, repair the community, and redress inequities and barriers to opportunity throughout the Westside of Kansas City, the department said. That community is now separated by I-35, which was built in the late 1960s, and other rail systems. The Westside community was home to immigrants from Mexico, Central, and Latin America who created a rich and diverse neighborhood that was a mix of housing, restaurants, and businesses, according to the transportation department. Transportation Department is awarding 39 planning grants and six capital construction grants, totalling $185 million in awards.Īmong them: $1 million in funding to be used to study how to reconnect Kansas City’s Westside neighborhood with the rest of the city’s commercial and residential centers. In a first round of funding for the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program - established by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - the U.S. A newly announced $1 million grant is expected to help reestablish a Kansas City neighborhood that was cut off from itself and opportunity thanks to past transportation infrastructure decisions - part of a $1 billion plan to right what many call a decades-long wrong largely perpetrated against historic communities of color.
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