With deaths from car accidents soaring, what can government do?
LOS ANGELES — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg released a plan Thursday to redesign roads, reduce speeds and push for more vehicle safety features, vowing to cut fatalities nationwide just weeks after Los Angeles closed out a year that saw a significant increase in deadly collisions on this car-centric city’s traffic-clogged roads.
The plan, called the National Roadway Safety Strategy, would be paid for by funds from the Biden administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure law, with the impossible-sounding goal of “zero roadway fatalities.” It would incorporate what it calls a “safe system approach” that acknowledges human error and physical frailty and
