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The (Too-Brief) History of Traffic Violence Memorials in America (Peter Norton)

The Brake: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Memorializing Traffic Deaths in the Public Spire

Peter Norton: When a person and especially when a child was injured or killed in a street, it was really viewed as a public failure. Children's right to the safe and convenient use of their own street was important to people then. And that meant that when people and especially when children were killed in streets, there were occasions when these losses were publicly recognized as public failures which had to be remedied.

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