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[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/traffic-atlanta-segregation.html by Kevin M. Kruse 14/8/19 The New York Times Magazine] | [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/traffic-atlanta-segregation.html by Kevin M. Kruse 14/8/19 The New York Times Magazine] | ||
Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the United States. Drivers there average two hours each week mired in gridlock, hung up at countless spots, from the constantly clogged Georgia 400 to a complicated cluster of overpasses at Tom Moreland Interchange, better known as “Spaghetti Junction.” The Downtown Connector — a 12-to-14-lane megahighway that in theory connects the city’s north to its south — regularly has three-mile-long traffic jams that last four hours or more. | Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the United States. Drivers there average two hours each week mired in gridlock, hung up at countless spots, from the constantly clogged Georgia 400 to a complicated cluster of overpasses at Tom Moreland Interchange, better known as “Spaghetti Junction.” The Downtown Connector — a 12-to-14-lane megahighway that in theory connects the city’s north to its south — regularly has three-mile-long traffic jams that last four hours or more. | ||
=====Still Separate, Still Unequal: Teaching about School Segregation and Educational Inequality===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/learning/lesson-plans/still-separate-still-unequal-teaching-about-school-segregation-and-educational-inequality.html by Keith Meatto 2/5/19 The New York Times] | |||
Racial segregation in public education has been illegal for 65 years in the United States. Yet American public schools remain largely separate and unequal — with profound consequences for students, especially students of color. | |||
