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Who lets a 7 year old cross 5 lanes of traffic?
by neuroelectron 1y ago
Who lets a 7 year old cross 5 lanes of traffic?
- dddddaviddddd 1y agoWho builds five lanes of high-speed traffic where people live and would want to cross the street? The problem is the design that puts danger where people want to be.
- neuroelectron 1y agoDid the street just show up out of nowhere? What ridiculous anti-logic.
- michaelsshaw 1y agoNo. It was purposefully put there, with crosswalks, designed to make lip service to pedestrians while maximizing their chances of dying.
- potato3732842 1y agoThe street was almost certainly there a long time before it was turned, to the detriment of other aspects, into the current lane high speed boulevard it currently is.
- Bjartr 1y agoTo the article's point, why did we put five lanes of traffic in a place a seven year old could reasonably want to cross? It didn't have to be that way.
- neuroelectron 1y agoThere would be no place the kid wanted to go without that street there. That's why.
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoIt's not possible to put a Subway restaurant within a safe walk of an apartment complex?
- Hemospectrum 1y agoOutright impossible. You see, the US is far more spread out than Europe. You need only look at a map to notice the insurmountable geographic barriers that prevent a Subway from being built closer to an apartment building. It simply can't be done. Wait, sorry, that's trains. You're talking about sandwiches. Let me check my notes...
- Bjartr 1y agoBut the street could have been designed in a way that was safe for a seven year old to cross. Instead of was designed with little to no thought of how anyone could be safe in that space outside of a car. It's demonstrably possible to facilitate both motor and foot traffic in a sane and safe way, but its not just slapping down five lanes and calling it a day.
- michaelsshaw 1y agoSure there could be. There could be other streets. Thinner, more accessible streets. This may surprise you, but there are other places in the world (crazy, I know), and they have streets that aren't super dangerous.