Who builds five lanes of high-speed traffic where people live and would want to cross the street? The problem is the design that puts danger where people want to be.
Did the street just show up out of nowhere? What ridiculous anti-logic.
No. It was purposefully put there, with crosswalks, designed to make lip service to pedestrians while maximizing their chances of dying.
The street was almost certainly there a long time before it was turned, to the detriment of other aspects, into the current lane high speed boulevard it currently is.