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The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working as Designed
When a child is killed on a street like West Hudson Boulevard, it’s not a tragic fluke. It’s the outcome we designed for.
On West Hudson Boulevard, the stray bullets are motor vehicles, and the result is the same: occasional, random, but entirely foreseeable deaths. We prosecute the parents, demonize the driver, or scold the pedestrian for “not being careful.” And in doing so, we avoid indicting the real culprit: the American development culture that produced this environment. We would start building neighborhoods where a grocery store, a sandwich shop, and an apartment complex can exist within a short, safe walk of each other.
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