Comment 38444

By Michelle Martin (registered) - website | Posted February 24, 2010 at 20:16:53

Um...it's called a shift in our value system.

Absolutely. And part of making people the priority over cars involves, I believe, a change in vocabulary. Instead of cars or drivers traveling, we should be referring to people who are passengers in cars, people driving cars. We should be calling cyclists people riding bicycles, pedestrians people who are walking, commuters people who are traveling to work. And when we say the word people, in our heads we should be hearing it like this: people who have loved ones waiting at home who need them to arrive alive and in one piece.

No one is immune to forgetting about others when they're behind the wheel. I find, if I'm running late, it sometimes requires a conscious effort on my part to think to myself "I will simply have to arrive late and apologize for it-- it is not worth risking the lives of others and my own by driving like a fool."

Yes-- human nature being what it is, we just have to make sure as many measures as possible are in place in this city to make people drive as if they are driving in a place where there are people. A few extra stop signs won't do it, neither will a few bike lanes to nowhere.

Sorry for the sermon/rant. Just saw too many people going too fast for conditions with the weather earlier this week.

Comment edited by Michelle Martin on 2010-02-24 19:18:43

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