Life in Kansas City and its environs

After the revelation last evening that Kansas City is number 3 on the "most dangerous cities in the nation" list from Forbes magazine, I found the following statistic, totally by chance, today on The Huffington Post:

 In one three-city study, suburban residents were 18% more likely to be killed or injured by traffic accidents or crime. If the entire U.S. shared New York’s traffic death rate, we would save more than 25,000 lives per year.

It seems more proof to me that Kansas City's sprawl and it's decision and commitments to sprawl, have lead us to where we are today, now, with this additional rating.  We waste gas and energy, we pollute more, we waste more time and energy in our cars, we have to use a car to get or do virtually anything, we don't know our neighbors too frequently and on and on.  It's no way to live.  A denser city is a smarter, safer city and one in which we leave the countryside to the countryside.  

It seems Malvina, above, was describing us, doesn't it?

Link to original post:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-speck/10-worst-things-suburban-sprawl_b_761574.html#s155915