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St. Louis' Crash Apparatus Shows the Sickness of Car Dominance
(www.riverfronttimes.com)
There's that word again: accident,an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance.
But the presence of a task force of public servants who close streets, push debris out of lanes, sweep glass off of car seats, tend to injured commuters and assemble totaled cars on a City Towing truck indicates that the circumstances of this crash are foreseen, in fact, expected. What I witnessed that night was a publicly funded apparatus, augmented by private medical companies, that exists because we know these crashes will happen and have planned around them.
This was a great read, thank you for sharing. Articles like this make me feel less crazy, that the society I've found myself in isn't normal just because it exists in its present state.
