What’s the Deal With I-80 and SF’s Central Freeway? Here’s a Brief History

from KQED News · host Alexander Gonzalez

Politics and earthquakes have shaped this key Bay Area thoroughfare, a geography professor at San Francisco State University says ahead of this weekend’s big closure.

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