Part II: Justice & The Interstates

The Interstate Highway System is an engineering marvel. What can we do better right now? How about in the future?

Below, the present and the future.

Are we optimistic about the future of our transportation system? Because it’s ours. We paid for it, or our grandparents did, or our friends and employers did. What do we want for its future? More highways? Our authors/experts dig into the big questions below. The conversation has, once again, been edited for length and clarity. Thanks to our participants. Make sure you check out Justice and the Interstates, which is going to be expanded into book form, I’m told.

What can we do better right now? How can we better influence public discussion? How can we better build projects that are meeting the needs of the people in our communities? Tierra?

Tierra Bills: The first thing that comes to mind is there's an obvious need for reviewing the historical record and looking at it through this lens of systemic racism. With that information, we need to be revi…