> we make an active choice to create danger and then a second choice not to mitigate the danger.

Precisely! This is why I keep suggesting charges of criminal negligence against city engineers, along side stripping them of sovereign immunity.

> Oh no, Josh, it sounds like you want someone to be responsible for the decisions they make!

Yes, yes I do.

(I wrote the article. You very correctly perceive that two-step choice. make it dangers, keep it dangerous.)