For a specific critique,

> One of the safety tools that has been taken down is known as the Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool, or PBCAT. As of Thursday, a link to the page that formerly hosted the tool on the FHWA website was dead.

Was it actually being used? Is there an alternative/better data source? Is it the only one?

https://catsip.berkeley.edu/resources/crash-data/crash-data-...

Lists 7 federal reporting methods. Why aren't these sufficient? Why was this one special? Why are there so many!?

Who knows what the actual story is behind this, but it won't be found here!

I'm not sure what changed at NPR, but there seems to be a heavy lean towards emotion now rather than depth. In the past, when I've looking into these sort of framings, they often give a completely different perspective that could have been reported.

It's 2026.