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Burrito Justice

“No other branch of civil engineering tolerates this level of system failure. In any other field, if engineers knew that systems would fail catastrophically about 30 times this year and knew when, where, and why that was most likely to happen, they would be required to intervene or shut everything down. And if they didn't, there would be serious professional consequences: firing, fines, loss of license, and, depending on how egregious the infraction, criminal penalties” sf.streetsblog.org/2024/03/27/

sf.streetsblog.org · Guest Commentary: Traffic Engineers Must Put Safety Over Driver Throughput - Streetsblog San FranciscoNo 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

“Only with traffic engineering is so much serious injury and death not only tolerated but expected. The means to prevent road deaths are well known, publicly available, proven, low cost, and low tech”