The Biden administration is spending billions to reconnect communities of color that have been fragmented by highways. Some projects have stirred debates over how to mend longstanding harms.

The old tunnel opened in June 1873 and took a little more than two years to hand dig. The Sun reported that 500 men labored daily in construction crews.

RALEIGH. Since the early 1960s, Ligon Street has passed under the Raleigh Beltline through a tunnel so low and narrow that cars — and only cars — could pass through in one direction at a time.