📕 Extra Credit: Should we tear down highways?

We're trying something new! This is the first in our 'Extra Credit' series, where we take a reading and discuss our takeaways, for your listening pleasure.

In this episode, we discuss an article that ran in Texas Observer in 2021: What If the State Department of Transportation Tore Down Texas Highways? by Megan Kimble.

We talk about:

• what impact urban highways have on cities (and how they are different from rural highways)
• the "interesting" ways Texas's Department of Transportation publicly talks about transportation
• why people want to tear down some highways (are they just maniacs??)
• pros and cons of urban highways
• and a lot more!

We also mention an article in The Guardian that came out the week we recorded:

• ‘It’s just more and more lanes’: the Texan revolt against giant new highways

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Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Isaac Horwedel, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, and Wire ("Lowdown")