Solo Drivers should be appreciative of buses, bicyclists, pedestrians and carpoolers -not resentful

[CreekDog]

15. I can't believe your hostility to pedestrians as well as the environmental benefits of not driving

First, I'm singling out drivers to not be hostile or resentful of non-drivers on the road (not to "not be morons&quot . Second, I'm pointing out that drivers should appreciate non-drivers because

a) they aren't slowing traffic as much as they would if they drove
b) there are environmental benefits of not driving, or driving less and we all, including drivers, benefit from people making that choice --even when we do not.

Really? They heat/cool their homes with a solar system?

I said reduce one's carbon footprint, not eliminate. Heating and cooling are fairly universal to people, but those who don't drive are the rarity, and thus, really do reduce their carbon footprint compared to people who drive or drive regularly.

Weird, because my system was the very first like it in the US, let alone California.

They're all Childfree? Weird, because those vans with video screens that so like to try to drive in two lanes are full of kids.

The broadside broad-brush animosity towards families with children seems unnecessary.

Pedestrians: use crosswalks. If you don't feel like crossing legally, try not to wear all dark colors at night and running in front of cars on ECR.

Perhaps you'd like to send a note to the families of the victims hit in the Millbrae crosswalks on ECR to inform them that their beloved family members were hit through their own fault.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Millbrae-crosswalk-claiming-more-victims-4104091.php

Again, blaming pedestrians for being hit is pretty crass on your part. I can forgive you for that.

What I can't forgive you for is saying it ignorantly, which you are. Crosswalks on El Camino for example have been the scene of multiple pedestrian deaths. Crosswalks in San Francisco are the scenes of hit pedestrians all the time, some 40% of them are elderly.

Your insensitivity and ignorance of this topic hasn't produced caution in posting on the topic.

You probably don't care about my posts that have pointed out how crosswalks are in fact unsafe by design to pedestrians and how they should be improved.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112739730
Most signaled intersections are unsafe for pedestrians, here's why (we need to encourage walking!)

Bikes (motor and pedal): try to stay out of a car's blindspot. There's no need to camp in a blindspot in freely-moving traffic.

How does a bicyclist avoid the blindspot of a car? Cars move fast, cars come up unseen from behind, cars speed up quickly in ways that bicycles cannot. Again, the hostility and frankly, blame towards pedestrians and bicyclists for being hit is what animates your post --and it's ignorant.

I like my car a lot. I have no interest in hitting a pedestrian or bike; fixing my car isn't cheap and it takes too damn long (how do I know? Got hit by a moron who couldn't see her red light or my red car.)

I like my car too. Not having an interest in not hitting anyone is not sufficient to be safe, it takes more than that. Also, the easiest way to get hit isn't to walk against a red light, it's to walk with a "walk signal" and a green light and have a car overtake you while turning behind you. You don't seem to know this, and yet, you speak as an expert. Nothing required you to speak on this, nothing required you to make misstatement after hostile misstatement about pedestrians, you chose to.

But you are wrong, and actually, incredibly anti-environmental and anti-safety in your post.

I guess the OP and this post could be summed up with, "Californians, stop being morons on the road."

Not really, but you are responding to a straw man of your own creation.

Or one snow. Just one. I'll stay home that day.