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Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by kwijybo on Friday July 22, 2022 @06:55AM (#32190614)
> If they go to that effort why not, you know, fix the intersection/road?

It's several orders of magnitudes different amounts of effort. Putting up a cross can be done one person in an hour. Fixing a road or intersection is months of work for tens of people,several machines, tonnes of material. Source: I've worked on making several dangerous intersection less dangerous

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Re:Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes by fennecfoxy on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:01AM (#32353916)
I guess I worded that badly, I more meant "surely a number of white crosses on an intersection, and the deaths of several people is enough to take action and rework the intersection". It's a failing of a government/council to have several people die at a junction that's clearly dangerous and then decide to do nothing about it.

Economics/value of human lives at play, I guess...

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