Portland Rethinking Transportation Infrastructure

In the year since the Interstate-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, cities around the nation have been scrambling to restore and replace aging transportation infrastructure. In 1955, the national highway system carried some 65 million cars and trucks. Today, that number has nearly quadrupled to 246 million. At a time when the highway system is badly in need of repair, some places, like Portland, Oregon, have started to debate whether highway infrastructure should be expanded at all, in light of the looming climate crisis.  FSRN's Jenka Soderberg has more.

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