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Streetsblog SF: Guest Commentary: Traffic Engineers Must Put Safety Over Driver Throughput

No other field would tolerate this level of death and destruction. The tragedy of West Portal is more evidence that the traffic engineering profession is fundamentally broken

I mean, yes, in most other engineering-adjacent professions designing systems like we do for traffic would be career limiting, but... City of Petaluma has two traffic engineers who come out and do walk arounds, point out all of the ways that our roads are awful and deadly, and that our relative lack of pedestrian and cyclist deaths comes primarily from suppressing those activities and ceding our public spaces to automobiles, but they're also hampered by budget and public will.

We need to fix society, not just traffic engineering.