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American Life is a Highway
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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