in a California port city, there were newspaper headlines when a City Council swore to everyone that tearing down hundreds of good houses to put in a freeway to a far away transportation center "will benefit this great city" .. It is a historical laughing stock. Many neighborhoods are thick with foul diesel smoke for sixty years now, and the ordinary gardens and yards that were paved over, are long gone. The benefit was to the regional shippers, who grew truck traffic 4x then 40x.