Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.

“I have never lived in a city that was not wrapped in highways. It’s hard for me to imagine anything else. And I think that’s true for a lot of people today. ... [But] we have known since the origins of the interstate highways program that building highways through cities doesn’t fix traffic. And yet we keep doing it. To me, that really fueled a lot of the book. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.”

Show notes:

• @megankimble
• megankimble.com
• Kimble on Longform
• Kimble’s Texas Observer archive
• 11:00 Kimble’s Austin Monthly archive
• 13:00 “Austin’s Not-So-Fair Housing Market” (Austin Monthly • Sept 2018)
• 49:00 “The Road Home” (Texas Observer • July 2021)

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