And carpet bombing traffic lights everywhere isn't really an answer even aside from cost. When some new retail went in near me, a bunch of traffic lights were added. To be clear, the adjacent interstate exchange was a really lousy intersection at busy times of the day. But the mass of street lights now make a straight shot through the intersections about a 5-10 minute process to go maybe a quarter mile.

>But the mass of street lights now make a straight shot through the intersections about a 5-10 minute process to go maybe a quarter mile.

I'm sure all sorts of wonderful pedestrian friendly moves get pulled by people trying to get ahead in that game.

There are essentially no pedestrians there (and no explicit pedestrian crossing). It's basically the boundary between a mostly rural exurb and a small city's sprawl. What it does have is one of those stupid zipper merges immediately after a traffic light which encourages aggressive drivers to jump the merge queue on a regular basis even if it means effectively running someone off the road.

I highly recommend the linked video (posted just above). It is not a natural law that pedestrians die on streets/roads, but it is a result of this typical North American road design.

I think he meant people don't walk anymore because the roads are fundamentally made for cars.