Throughline by Jill Filipovic

Throughline by Jill Filipovic

Why Are Cars King?

A simple set of suggestions to prioritize pedestrians over steel.

Jill Filipovic
Mar 22, 2023
∙ Paid
white suv on brown field during daytime
Photo by Craig Marolf on Unsplash

It shouldn’t be asking too much to be able to safely walk down the street in a major American city. And yet this week, we’ve again seen pedestrian death after death – one in New York, on a road previously identified as one of the city’s most dangerous, and one in Washington, D.C.

It’s time for American cities to wrest ba…

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