The state was close to breaking ground on the project — a proposed widening of certain sections of Interstate 45 that has been years in the making — when the Department of Transportation invoked the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to temporarily shut it down pending further review, Politico reported.
The department's intervention is being described as a "test case" for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who previously decried racial injustice in highway construction and vowed to make "righting these wrongs an imperative" under his leadership.
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