The End of the Road
![](https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/freeway-collage.jpg?quality=75&strip=all)
Our cities were built for cars. Can we rethink infrastructure to move beyond our fossil-fueled past? Grist explores in this mini-series
In This Series
-
What happens to traffic when you tear down a freeway?
We looked at a real-world examples in Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle to see if tearing down highways makes traffic worse.
-
What if a city decides it can live without a freeway?
Inside the push to tear down an Oakland freeway
-
Why do cities keep building all this new stuff for cars?
Cars are this symbol of freedom, but they actually need a huge amount of help in the form of infrastructure.