The End of the Road
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
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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.
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What if a city decides it can live without a freeway?
Inside the push to tear down an Oakland freeway
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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.
