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I think that lurking under the surface of many highway removal projects is a question that is hard to answer and therefore not always discussed.

Can the divisions these roads created actually be healed?

Can the scar with time fade? Can the fabric re-knit? Can the people on either side

become neighbors again after decades of living with a highway between them? Rochester, New York,

is trying to answer that question. So how long have you lived here? My whole life.

Do you remember what used to be right here in front of us?

Yeah, the inner loop.

It's literally where we're standing.

So you would be on the highway.

Yeah.

The... you would be on the highway. My name is Ian Koss.

This is the Big Dig Highway Tear Down Tour.

Today we round out our trio of Empire State episodes in Rochester.

The city is in the midst of a multi-phase project to entirely remove what's

called the inner loop. It's a beltway road, like many cities have, but there are two details I'd

emphasize for those of you who don't know Rochester. First is that this is a very tight beltway

right around the core of the city.

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