Why Does The U.S. Destroy Its Cities For Highways?
Strong Towns Strong Towns
112K subscribers
95,008 views
0

 Published On Mar 25, 2024

What would you do if you created your forever home, and then the government decided to run a highway right through your living room?

Join a Local Conversation to find others wanting to end highway expansion: https://strongtowns.org/local
Check out this 4 Freeway Fighting Tactics webinar:
https://academy.strongtowns.org/p/lm-...
Join our email list to stay updated on our ending highway expansions campaign: https://www.strongtowns.org/email

Come to our national gathering: https://gathering.strongtowns.org/



Featured in this video:
Highway Boondoggles 2023 report: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...
Follow Segregation by Design on Instagram:   / segregation_by_design  



Directed, Edited, and Filmed by Mike Pasternock
Story Produced By Seairra Jones
Research By Seairra Jones and Mike Pasternock

Research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m...

00:00 Introduction
01:51 Warm up, the bulldozer, Rob
04:37 Shreveport's Big Boondoggle
06:15 Is this... necessary?
07:12 Time ≠ Money
08:37 Spending For Shiny New Stuff
10:00 Cherry-picked study
12:02 Solving Imaginary Problems
13:27 Highway Sword of Damocles
16:30 Put the Zombie down
18:18 National Gathering!

show more

Share/Embed