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so did something happen in the last 20 years to make roads unsafe? because the issues addressed by this type of legislation are recent.

• acuozzo 4y ago
  IMO, yes, but I obviously can't cite sources for this claim. I think it was a problem that started to feed back on itself once people started spending more time indoors and isolated themselves from their neighbors more. Stupid, careless, wreckless people obviously existed during the heyday of the American suburbs, but I reckon that far fewer of them came roaring down suburban streets at 60mph since they knew that Nicky, Tony, and Tommy might be outside playing stickball and that Tony's dad, also named Tony, would throw you a neighborhood-sanctioned beating if you were to pull such a stunt... and nobody saw nothin'. No, instead, you drove carefully until you got to the highway and THEN it was drag racing time.