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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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Why Memorialize Traffic Violence Victims?

Peter Norton: Why is public grieving important? And why does erecting monuments to traffic violence victims matter so much? We don't tend to respond very well to raw numbers, which is pretty close to all we have when it comes to the losses. The scale of the loss is still just breathtaking. You know, something on the order of 40,000 dead a year is just appalling and yet the number just cannot reach us the way stories can.

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