Ok, when did crossing the street get to be so hard?
I mean really, didn't the city pass a law that cars are supposed to STOP when a pedestrian is in an intersection trying to stop? I can't count how many times over the course of a week that I try to cross a street and can't because an asshole motorist won't let me cross.
I mean really, it's bad enough that we pedestrians have to try to walk over sidewalks and places that aren't even shoveled, to almost get hit by you Mr or Mrs or Miss or Ms ASSHOLE because you can't even obey the law. Not to mention, we the person standing outside in the cold, have to wait on you, who are probably pretty warm in your car, f'n up our air with your cars emissions, and we the pedestrian have to breath that shit, and by walking, we are being environmentally aware, and reducing our carbon footprint, and this is how we get repaid? By simply trying to cross the street and almost getting hit by you in your car?
And then there's the assholes who decide to run the red light right after it changes - a different kind of asshole all together - not only are you breaking the law by running a red light, you are also, saying to the world that I am more important than anyone, including you Mr. Pedestrian, who I almost hit because you were walking in the cross walk. Really speedy, will getting to your final destination a few seconds faster really make that much of a difference in the general order of your life? Or was your travel planning that bad that you feel you have to rush, regardless of the safety of other pedestrians or drivers?
I bet you are the same asshole that rolls through stop signs rather than stops - STOP means STOP, in case you were wondering. What would happen if you were to roll through the stop and hit a little child that you couldn't see? I cannot tell you how many times I've almost been hit by one of those assholes that roll through a stop sign - and then they look at me as if I'm in the wrong for crossing the street in front of their car - what the @#$%@~#%#%
Some people just need to actually use that thing between their ears for more that tuning out into the social network of the world, and consider others around them
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The only way to make motorists more considerate is to make it more uncomfortable and cumbersome to drive.
Last I heard, the WALK light means WALK, not hop, skip, trot, or run like hell.
We need more "traffic calming" on our major arteries around here, that are heavily used by impatient, aggressive North Shore suburbanites who can't wait to get downtown to pay $20 a day to park. These damn people treat Sheridan and Broadway like interstate highways. I have witnessed two pedestrian collisions on Broadway, and the driver drove off without stopping on both occasions, leaving a seriously injured pedestrian lying in the middle of the roadway. The corner of Sheridan & Pratt is a death trap, with 4 fatalities in the past few years.
I'm for "calming" measures on these streets like center medians and wider sidewalks, and lower speedlimits. And NO NO NO we are NOT going to build "the last four miles" outer drive extension and destroy our beaches to accommodate suburban motorists. If they don't like it, they can take the METRA, which they'd do if they had any damn sense to begin with.
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