They Might Need the Lane Someday (and Who Cares How Many People Get Hurt in the Meantime)

They Might Need the Lane Someday (and Who Cares How Many People Get Hurt in the Meantime)

By Charles Marohn What will professional engineers do when an intersection can’t be made safe? What happens when all the studies, observations, and data point to an unresolved and dangerous outcome? Does it become a public health emergency, something that prompts a rethinking of our transportation priorities? Or do professionals accept a recurring pattern of crashes as the price society pays for moving enormous volumes of traffic between a middl…