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Mistakes are fatal all the time. Accidents are the third leading cause of death. You've gotta have some sense. Everyone would like to live in a world where no one was ever hit by a car and a baby never drowned but that isn't going to happen so we put up a pool fence AND watch your baby. No one has yet come up with an answer to where on earth the BILLIONS of dollars would come from to change the roads to save like 6K people a year. It sounds awful but from a cost/benefit perspective it just doesn't make sense. Not as long as there is cancer and hungry children and hundreds of thousands dying from opioids. So probably best to keep your head up and on a swivel. [/quote]

Where did the BILLIONS of dollars come from to build those roads in the first place?

You're saying that we have to keep on having roads that kill pedestrians because it's too expensive to change them. Tell that to the parents of 14-year-old Kamal Nashid, who was killed in Prince George's County last week. Neighbors had been saying for years that the road was dangerous, but the people in charge evidently agreed with you, and now he's dead.[/quote]

No one is saying it isn't terrible, but it isn't going to happen. We don't have enough money to build a utopia and as long as humans are involved there will be genuine mistakes and totally asshole moves. You can put a light in at an egregiously dangerous intersection here and there but you cannot make every intersection perfectly safe for pedestrians. And yes, I'd rather spend the money curing cancer. I suppose we could get the billions from our military industrial complex but we know that will never stop either. It is an unpleasant truth. So rage against the wind all you want. It won't change a thing. [/quote]

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