Imagine for a moment that, every week, four to five commercial airplanes crashed in America.
In reality, a similar number of people die per week in traffic accidents, but, for the most part, those deaths don’t resonate with us in the same way.
“If that many airplanes were crashing every week, it would not be acceptable to people. Unfortunately, we’ve come to view traffic death as the ‘cost of doing business,” said Franz Loewenherz, principal transportation planner for the city of Bellevue in Washington state. “But it doesn’t have to be.”
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