
S1E1 - Leah Brooks: Infrastructure Costs
Densely Speaking
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Depressed Highways Are From an Urban Perspective
Mitt Romney's father locked the people who were arguing about this route into a room and told him they could not come out. He was just so intensely frustrated, which actually seems like not a terrible way to force people to make a decision. That highway was just astoundingly expensive. And I think it really shows the trade off because depressed highways are from an urban perspective so much better than an above ground. With the depressed highway, you could potentially have an urban fabric. On great highway, you just can't.
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