Thanks for that detail, it's helpful. It is absolutely insane to me that we literally run an asphalt ribbon of death outside (almost) everyone's door and people

Thanks for that detail, it's helpful. It is absolutely insane to me that we literally run an asphalt ribbon of death outside (almost) everyone's door and people accept it as... normal. If my kid (who wiggles a LOT) squirms out of my grip she stands an unacceptably high risk of getting killed by a car. That's not OK. Anyway it took 10 years but our plan to move somewhere better (Netherlands) is nearly done but you shouldn't need to move 6,000 miles to find one damn place that isn't completely given over to machines that crush kids. It's not just kids dying, either. I want to be able to send my kid outside to play and not stress about it. That should be possible somewhere like Houten (which to be clear, still has cars! It's just much, much, much better designed). I don't know anywhere in the US I'd be ok with it, except -maybe- culdesac.com or one of the very few car-free or car-lite refuges like Catalina island.