Boulevard of Broken Screams

Why did the chicken cross the road? At many intersections across America, the answer to that age-old question is impossible to ascertain. Because the chicken didn’t make it. When you look at which roads across the country are particularly dangerous, it turns out than many of them are managed at the state (not local) level. Look both ways before reading this interesting overview of the problem from Vox that begins on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia, a 12-lane thoroughfare known as the “corridor of death.” (Which, ironically, is the same nickname I’ve given my open tabs over the last week.) The most dangerous roads in America have one thing in common. “Although only 14 percent of urban road miles nationwide are under state control, two-thirds of all crash deaths in the 101 largest metro areas occur there.”