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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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Car Crash Memorials - Is There a Difference?

I think it gets to the tension between like a memorial, not just as a thing that's set the narrative about how we talk about traffic violence. I would not be at all surprised if there is such an example of a crosswalk that maybe is informally known after the name of a person who was killed trying to cross there or something like that. That's so interesting to me. And I'm curious if in your research, you've run across car crash memorials that were, you know, like a memorial protected bike lane?

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