How to fix the most dangerous streets in America
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The city is partially responsible because it has allowed development to occur too rapidly. The city's road infrastructure simply can't keep pace. Hell, most of our roads don't even have pipe drains but instead use culverts designed 100 years ago.
It's a sorry state.
In DFW they slowly expand outwards by building these housing developments like 20-30 minutes farther from where "civilization" ends out in "the countryside", so you have these huge suburban hellscapes smackdab in the middle of rolling farmland and cattle and small country houses, and not any kind of retail stores for miles.
My brother lives in one of these, and there's easily 1000+ houses in his neighbor and the other 3 or 4 immediately surrounding it, and the only way to get to any of them is a single two lane road that stretches for a few miles off the state highway it branches off of. Around 8am/5pm it takes literally hours to make it out or get back to your house because of how many cars there are backed up.
I think the problem goes much deeper, engineers in most cases are just doing their job. Not that they couldn't do things better, they can, but it seems to me like this is actually a political problem. At some point in the history of the US it was decided that public transportation was not the way to go and instead every American should own a house in the suburbs and a car.
It's culture and politics that needs to change, not signs and lines in the roads. And this means the problem is more difficult to solve as it is not a tech problem but a people's problem.