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505- First Errand

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How to Make Japanese Streets Safer for Kids

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Sotoshi nikao is an engineering professor at kioto university. He's doing research on the history of traffic accidents in japan. The next major design feature that makes japanese streets safer for kids is pretty counter intuitive. Instead of building streets to fit the turning radius of a fire engine, like we do in the us, japan just built smaller fire engines.

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