I trust my sources (mainly, a city planner that's been working here for 30 years). Certain engineering specialists out here sometimes make absolutely absurd amo

I trust my sources (mainly, a city planner that's been working here for 30 years). Certain engineering specialists out here sometimes make absolutely absurd amounts of money because they work on contracts with such limited scope, the equivalent of 600k or more a year. Also, I think the notion of having to balance pedestrians' interests with drivers' is a cultural thing that filters down from the MUTCD and into traffic engineering. Drivers create almost all the risk associated with our road system yet their interests are prioritized highly. Traffic engineers are bound to this deadly model that prioritizes drivers, because road construction projects are not given government funds (which they often completely rely on) unless they conform to MUTCD.