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Still Processing

When Your Neighbor’s the Highway

Still Processing

Still Processing

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.89.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today, Wesley leaves the studio – and goes home. He embarks on a journey that involves a car named Khad'ija, a tireless 92-year-old activist and one Chinatown. Last year, President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law. One part of the initiative especially struck Wesley: the federal government’s acknowledgment that its mid-century push to build a massive highway system had caused suffering. Wesley started thinking about a highway that he sometimes crossed as a kid in Philadelphia: the Vine Street Expressway. When it was built in 1991, he never realized how deeply it had divided and altered the Chinatown neighborhood. What happened to all the people who were living there? How did their lives — and their communities — transform? On today’s show, Wesley returns to his hometown to try to find out. Visit nytimes.com/stillprocessing for photos of Wesley's journey and more info about the episode.

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0:00.0

This is Kadeja.

0:14.3

Why did you call the car Kadeja?

0:16.0

Because she's a hurt rat.

0:17.6

This is my sister Robin and her car.

0:21.2

Hi Kadeja.

0:22.2

Kadeja.

0:23.2

They wouldn't add it to.

0:25.4

Kadeja.

0:27.9

My sister is a surgical first assistant in an operating room at a very busy hospital,

0:32.6

which means that she spends a lot of time assisting doctors and surgeries and making sure

0:36.2

those surgeons don't screw up.

0:38.8

God Robin.

0:39.8

Whoa.

0:40.8

This is what we do.

0:41.8

All right.

0:42.8

You.

0:43.8

But she drives like a person who doesn't think she'll ever end up in hospital.

0:47.6

So Daddy taught me how to drive in the 18 passenger white van after he came from a

0:52.4

track meet with the boys from Roman Catholic High School.

0:55.1

And I said, Daddy, I want to learn how to drive.

0:57.2

He was like, oh.

0:59.7

And then that's how it all started.

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