Traffic experts and city planners in Kansas City have tried to make it quick and easy to drive in and out of downtown.
At the time, it was great for getting office workers home in time for dinner.
But over the years, interstates and highways bloomed to carry commuters into and out of the city center more quickly. That meant four-lane surface streets became an overbuilt legacy. With so many lanes and so little traffic, drivers went faster and the roads became, counterintuitively, more dangerous.
