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165. The Perfect Crime

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How Did the Roads Really Become for Cars?

As automobile rose to exalted status in America, roads and landscape were built to privilege them. This is most pronounced in the parts of the country with high pedestrian and bicyclist deaths like the Southeast. To Norton, there is no mystery here: A street's for cars. It's automatic. If I say, what's a street for, somebody's going to say car right away. That's Peter Norton.

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