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Waze Lights the Beacons to Guide Drivers Through Chicago’s Tangled Streets

Waze Lights the Beacons to Guide Drivers Through Chicago’s Tangled Streets

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Waze Lights the Beacons to Guide Drivers Through Chicago’s Tangled Streets

FromWhat's New

ratings:
Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Sep 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In downtown Chicago, near where the river meets the lake, the city gets a bad case of Escheritis. The streets double—sometimes triple!—into three dimensions, dropping below each other and folding around the basements and sub-basements of skyscrapers, cutting across the river on bridges hanging below other bridges, and eliding into drivable strata in ways that cities generally promise not to do. In Chicago, the multi-level streets of Wacker, Lake Shore Drive, Michigan Ave.
Released:
Sep 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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