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Highway Teardown Tour | 8. Baltimore, MD
Season 1 Episode 18
This episode is about a very different kind of teardown – one that came suddenly, tragically, and without warning. But within this utterly unique sto…
2 hours ago
Highway Teardown Tour | 7. Louisville, KY
Season 1 Episode 17
In the stories we tell about public works, there is a constant bias towards the projects that actually happened, but it’s the apparently ‘failed’ pro…
1 week ago
Highway Teardown Tour | 6. Portland, OR
Season 1 Episode 16
The anti-highway movement, like any movement, has always been a coalition. Different people with different backgrounds and different interests findin…
2 weeks ago
Highway Teardown Tour | 5. Seattle, WA
Season 1 Episode 15
There is exactly one other American city crazy enough to attempt anything like what Boston did with The Big Dig. That city is Seattle, and they are n…
3 weeks ago
Highway Teardown Tour | 4. Austin, TX
Season 1 Episode 14
How did the Austin City Council find themselves locked in a ‘death match’ over what to do about Interstate 35? Two councilors and two journalists tal…
4 weeks ago
Highway Teardown Tour | 3. Rochester, NY
Season 1 Episode 13
Once the highway is gone, can the divisions these structures created actually be healed? Can the people on either side become neighbors again? Roches…
1 month ago
Highway Teardown Tour | 2. Syracuse, NY
Season 1 Episode 12
Is it possible to re-write the Interstate map and send highways around cities instead of through them? Syracuse, NY is doing just that.
Guests: Marie…
1 month, 1 week ago
Highway Teardown Tour | 1. New York, NY
Season 1 Episode 11
What to do with the BQE? It’s a one of a kind highway in desperate need of repair, but no one can agree how to fix it.
Guests: Polly Trottenberg, Lar…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Highway Teardown Tour | Enter Here
Season 1 Episode 10
Every American city is divided by crumbling old highways. Every city is trying to figure out what to do with them. But even if the problems with thes…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
BONUS: A note from the team
Season 1
Just dropping in to share some news about the show, and what's coming next.
2 years ago