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Killed by a Traffic Engineer

In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought.
Bryan Robb

by Bryan Robb

Killed by a Traffic Engineer
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