What we lost when cars won

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By Kate YoderOct 28, 2025, 4:30 am100 ptsTrending
When automobiles first started tearing through American streets a century ago, they weren’t exactly welcome. One of the main problems was that they were killing children: in 1921 alone, 286 children in Pittsburgh, 130 in Baltimore, and 97 in Washington, D.C. Cities memorialized the dead with monuments and…

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