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Infrastructure and Its Discontents

Seth LaJeunesse

Researcher. Essayist. Sixteen years studying why roads hurt people and what that tells us about who we think matters.

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The Labeling

This pedestrian signal timing is based on the standard 3.5 feet per second.

He’s near town hall looking eastward across the long diagonal crossing, anticipating the countdown on the box affixed to the traffic light pole. This is a crossing...

7 days ago
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The Backseat Window

The girl is looking out the car window from the back seat. As with most days, she is being driven to school by her mother. She notices the outline of trees and the blur of passing cars, rolling hills in the distance seemingly standing still...

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What and Who is a Street For?

I’m standing on the side of Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill, NC. It’s July in NC’s Piedmont at 2:45 in the afternoon. Needless to say, it’s damn hot and humid out here. And shade is something of a scarce luxury. I’m looking at a freshly asph...

a month ago
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What the Bridge Confesses

Photo: City of Durham, NC.

There are two pieces of Lakeland Street in Durham, North Carolina, one on each side of North Carolina Highway 147. On the northeast side, the street runs barely fifty feet before it stops at the edge of a freeway...

2 months ago
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Service for Whom?

The consultant’s slide goes up on the wall. It is a nondescript Tuesday evening in a municipal meeting room replete with fluorescent light, an agenda, staff arrayed along one side of a table. Ray Moe of Ballofett and Associates has been hir...

2 months ago
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