Solo Drivers should be appreciative of buses, bicyclists, pedestrians and carpoolers -not resentful [View all]

[CreekDog]

1) Non solo drivers aren't in a car on the road with you, slowing you down as much as if everyone were driving solo would.

2) They won't be competing with you for parking wherever you're going

3) They are reducing their carbon footprint which is reducing their impact on the environment, likely more than you are, by using alternative means of transportation

4) They are helping reduce local air pollution and downwind air pollution by reducing their contribution to the precursors to Ozone (smog) and particulates.

5) You shouldn't be upset with pedestrians with walk signals who aren't walking "fast enough" for you. That may be difficult for them, they may have a hidden disability or health condition, they may simply be walking a long distance or simply not walk fast.

As someone who spends a lot of time in a high density downtown area, while I understand the frustration of driving in such a place filled with cars, trucks, construction, mass transit, people on foot and bicyclists, the most common danger we all face, is from other people driving cars.

So it's incumbent upon drivers, above the others to change their behavior and attitudes in these environments the most because they are the greatest sources of danger (for the moment).

(in California, a car doing this would be doing something illegal)