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Freeway Exit

Freeway Exit

By: KPBS Public Media
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 Freeways are not free. We pay for them in all kinds of ways — with our tax dollars, our time, our environment and our health. While freeways have enabled huge amounts of economic growth, they've also caused displacement and division. Learn the forgotten history of our urban freeway network, and how decades after that network was finished, some communities are still working to heal the wounds that freeways left behind. As climate change threatens to wreak havoc on our cities, freeways are not just a part of the problem. They can also be part of the solution.2023 KPBS Public Media Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • BONUS: Abundance in transportation

    BONUS: Abundance in transportation
    Aug 12 2025
    California needs better public transit. But building new bus and rail lines is difficult and expensive here. A new report says to make things easier, the state needs to get out of its own way.
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    24 mins
  • BONUS: Freeways and loneliness

    BONUS: Freeways and loneliness
    Apr 8 2025
    Urban highways are preventing us from meeting our neighbors and building community, according to a landmark new study. Luca Aiello, professor of data science at the IT University of Copenhagen, shares his research into the impact of freeways on social networks. The findings are important not just for our right to pursue happiness, but also for our pocketbooks. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122
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    46 mins
  • BONUS: Sizing up California's freeway budget

    BONUS: Sizing up California's freeway budget
    Aug 13 2024
    In a lean budget year, California has shrunk the size of its climate investments while still spending hundreds of millions of dollars on freeway expansions. Carter Rubin, director of state transportation advocacy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, joins the podcast to talk about his research into the state's mixed priorities in transportation spending. Research on HOV/toll lanes: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/18RD022.pdf
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    45 mins
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