Megan Kimble
Journalist and author of City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways. Her expertise is in urban planning and transportation.
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Apr 2, 2024 • 40min
The Texas Freeway Fight with Megan Kimble
Journalist Megan Kimble discusses the Texas freeway fight, highlighting the negative impacts of highway expansion on communities. The podcast explores grassroots activism, the advocacy to remove I-345 in Dallas, challenges faced by homeowners, and the influence of the Texas Transportation Commission. It sheds light on the importance of pushing for alternative transportation solutions and the promotion of Kimble's book 'City Limits'.
May 20, 2024 • 50min
Megan Kimble: The Toll Urban Highways Take and the People Fighting Back
Journalist Megan Kimble discusses the social impacts of urban highway expansion in Texas cities like Austin, Dallas, and Houston. She highlights community resistance efforts, grassroots activism, displacement in minority neighborhoods, and the challenges of aligning federal and state funding for highway projects.
May 7, 2024 • 27min
How to Fight a Texas-Sized Freeway Battle (Megan Kimble)
Author Megan Kimble discusses grassroots efforts in Texas to fight highway expansions, highlighting the campaign to remove I-345 in Dallas. They delve into the impact of highway projects on communities and the need to challenge auto-centric city planning, with a focus on envisioning cities without highways like Rochester, New York.
