Yea I hate how cities don't do jack about fixing shiz like that.
Near where I live, in La Jolla, California (It's San Diego, but the rich people there wanted to call it their own city...) there is this wood gaurd rail right next to a cliff. For years, people living in that area made complaints that it should be replaced with a metal one. Last weekend, a 16 yr old girl was driving and I don't know exactly what happened, the car went off the cliff and she died. There were 3 other people in the car, but they managed to get out. The girl didn't make it out.