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There Are No Accidents with Jessie Singer

The War on Cars

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The Traffic Engineers, You Know, Can't Fix the Situation After the Fact

"The thing about traffic engineers, oh man, does it get dark and deep," he says. "Everything that traffic engineers are taught about how roads should be designed is a bit of a sham." The rules they're taught aren't based on hard data or scientific evidence, CNN's John Sutter writes. Traffic engineers can't fix the situation after the fact because to do so would have been an admission of blame for their own actions,. 'In a lot of ways, we are all exposed to risk in the way our roads are engineered'

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