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Decolonizing the Intersection: The Case for Abolishing the Tyranny of the Traffic Light
American NewsMaya Chen
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Decolonizing the Intersection: The Case for Abolishing the Tyranny of the Traffic Light

Before proceeding, I wish to acknowledge that I am writing from the unceded ancestral lands of the Lenape people. I further acknowledge that the entire American transportation grid is a scar of concrete and asphalt laid violently upon lands stolen from countless Indigenous nations. Trigger Warning: The following discourse engages with themes of state-sanctioned spatial violence, carceral infrastructure, chromo-normativity, and the epistemic erasure inherent in urban planning.