American Life is a Highway
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🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
America is caught in a vicious cycle of trying to alleviate traffic by expanding and building more highways, only for them to clog right up with more cars. How do you beat the traffic?
Guest: David Zipper, Senior Fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative who writes about transportation policy.
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| 1:04.0 | If you were to go due west from downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, |
| 1:11.0 | you'd find yourself in a neighborhood called Allendale. |
| 1:15.1 | Allendale is a historically black community adjacent to downtown in Shreveport, Louisiana. |
| 1:22.4 | And it has had this in Shreveport, Louisiana. |
| 1:22.5 | And it has had this sort of like dark cloud |
| 1:28.5 | hovering over this neighborhood for decades now. |
| 1:31.6 | That's David zipper who writes about transportation |
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