started the "belle season" and the tracks that were previously covered by snow now look gleaming white lines and yellow, inviting drivers to "heavy foot" to advance the fever of Formula 1.
Meanwhile, television, billboards and newspapers constantly bombard drivers about the dangers of excessive speed roll. Sorry I bombarded?, I should say HOUNDS!
Drivers must pass test after test and pay up licenses and plates, and then being chased by the hunters of blue, beset by a biased media advertising and frowned upon (but hated) by most pedestrians. And ... and they wonder why?
is curious but telling change is ... go from pedestrian to be conductive open your eyes. Now we see what we saw before our eyes is not a pedestrian. Now we see people crossing in the middle of the street at a slow and challenging look at the car that comes with a green light ahead. Now we see pedestrians who are crossing the crosswalk when the light has a hand in front (an open hand means "stop") even though the car has priority to bend. Now we see pedestrians who think faster than a car and run to see who wins the last. Now we see cyclists who run red lights, opening to the left without signals (without ever seeing his blind spot) or walking in the middle of the track.
And I wonder: if you give licenses to be pedestrian or cyclist? And if at 16 years each had to give a theoretical examination of the rules of the road? If everyone had to pass a practical and circular with the permit in his pocket. If a pedestrian had to pay $ 500 for crossing the street half a block 10 cars running while you throw up. If each pedestrian was also required to pay an accident insurance to the SAAQ.
And I wonder: if you vindicate the driver who struck a pedestrian negligence? And if the victim was not the hit, but the driver? The hit (or their legal heirs in case of death) is obliged to pay compensation property damage, medical and psychological costs to the driver.
And I wonder what stops faster: a car rolling at 50 km / h or a person walking at 5 km / h?
Transit is not a video game where you earn points over a pedestrian pass that becomes a ghost and then a few minutes can return color (as in the Pac-man). Transit is a system that compose drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, and we must all meet standards, be responsible and respectful alike.
So from here I do my little spot advertising for niche neglected by the media: Pedestrian
rider ... no ... become run down!
