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By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted October 26, 2008 at 19:07:46
Your sense of humour is fantastic! I especially liked the little bruises on the noses.
The sad part is your now trying to make fun of me instead of actually trying to prove me wrong. Does this mean you are actually starting to get a grasp of reality?
Come down to my neck of the woods. Go to any of the 4 way stops on Sterling St. and watch traffic for 1 hour and tell me who is more outrageous cars or bikes. I have to deal with those two wheeled idiots all the time.
Another pet peeve spot is the pedestrian crossing on Cootes Dr. People refuse to wait that hellishly long wait of a whole minute for the light to change and simply dart across the road. They have changed the speed limit a couple of times already but its no better. I am sure that place is going to be the scene of a tragic accident it's just a matter of time. The city has done everything it can to make it a safe place to cross yet people make it dangerous. Our roads are very safe IF you follow the rules and use a little common sense. By the way what is this "safe vehicle speed" for pedestrians? In school some years ago I wrote a paper about seat belt use and a study out of Sweden found the lowest impact speed for a vehicle impact causing death to an unsecured driver or passenger was in the neighborhood of 20KPH. That's for somebody inside the car. The poor women killed recently was evidently hit by a truck turning the corner how fast was he going? How fast could he have been going. I don't know what happened there but it is very tragic.
For every action we take to make our streets safer there are consequences. Reduce the speed of traffic through the city. Create more traffic chaos and traffic jams and the air quality goes down; more people suffer and heaven forbid die. Don't believe me ask one of your asthmatic friends.
Most pedestrians and cyclists are not scared of cars, just watch them interact. A big part of the problem is they don't respect the dangers. Nobody needs to like cars but they should learn to respect them.
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