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Sep 2024
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What Next TBD: American Life is a Highwa...

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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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