THE INTERSECTION looks at change in the Bay Area through physical intersections and street corners — where different cultures, desires and histories meet every day.
Last season, host David Boyer took us to an intersection in San Francisco’s poorest neighborhood — the Tenderloin.
This season we join him in Silicon Valley at in one of the wealthiest addresses on the planet — Google's headquarters in Mountain View.
Our focal point is Space Park Way and North Shoreline Boulevard. It's the intersection of wealth, poverty, innovation and change — and it's poised to be completely transformed in the next decade.
"I think what makes this a crisis is there are no good choices left. You can sit in traffic all day. You can have a somewhat inconvenient transit trip. You can't necessarily afford to live near your job. What that means is our highways and our roads are filled with cars that are making 40, 50, 60, 70, 80-mile trips." —Ratna Amin, SPUR
The rest of season two of THE INTERSECTION will be available later this fall. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
THE INTERSECTION was made possible with a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission and support from California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
