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Traffic Safety

Crossing the street is getting more deadly. Biden's infrastructure law could change that.

Every day, Tamika Butler watches as the residents of her majority-Black neighborhood in Los Angeles dart across six lanes of traffic on busy Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

As a transportation safety expert, Butler, 37, knows the risks they're taking. As a resident, Butler knows they have few other options. In some areas, crosswalks are 1,300 feet apart on a road that itself is about 75 feet wide. Last year about 120 people were killed walking Los Angeles' streets, making the city one of the most dangerous for pedestrians.