Why Are Cars King?

A simple set of suggestions to prioritize pedestrians over steel.

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…