Dig Presents: Superhighway!
Jacobin Radio
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The History of Highway Development in the United States
Roads are not just one thing because they traverse places. You might be on a surface that seems like it's the same thing for 100 miles. But underneath you, the way it's engineered into the landscape might be radically different as you traverse different soils and hydrologies and geologies. The logistics of building and the challenge of designing roads that would be able to exist in all weathers is huge.
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