SHARING the STREETS Week I Intro

A WEEKLY COLUMN

350 yr. old cactus near Petatlan, Mexico.
ATTEMPTING TO SHARE SOMEONE ELSE'S SPACE CAN OFTEN LEAD TO CONFRONTATION.
WE MUST ALL LEARN TO SHARE OUR DWINDLING SPACES

WEEKS 1 - 8

WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION (My qualifications.)

WEEK 2: COMPUTERIZATION (Cars are becoming more advanced.)

WEEK 3: BACKING UP - Part One (Safety at an intersection.)

WEEK 4: BACKING UP - Part Two (Safety at an intersection.)

WEEK 5: BACKING UP - Part Three (Pedestrian courtesy at an intersection.)

WEEK 6: BACKING UP - Part Four (Intersection courtesy.)

WEEK 7: SIDEWALKS (Sharing Sidewalks.)

WEEK 8: CROSSWALKS - Part One (Crossing streets safely.)

WEEKLY COLUMN PAGE II : WEEKS 9 - 17 :

WEEKLY COLUMN - SHARING THE STREETS

Each week I will add to this column.

SHARING THE STREETS

Week One - Introduction

by

LEE A. WOOD

Each of us can help reduce `Road Rage' by simply being courteous to our fellow users of the streets.

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We are not alone on this overcrowded planet and as the population grows the space that is around us shrinks.

Road rage is becoming more prevalent as we increase the number of vehicles on our roadways and street rage is also becoming more common, as the number of people on the sidewalks increases.

Everyone wants to have their space and we all feel violated when someone enters our space uninvited. What we have to realize is that the space is not ours. All spaces belong to everyone and though we may momentarily fill a space, as we move about, we are only using it temporarily, as was the person before us, as is the next person to come along. If one or more persons should occupy the same space at the same time we must all realize that this is inevitable and should not become upset by it.

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As well as spending a lot of time and miles as a pedestrian, I have driven professionally for over thirty years. I have driven police cars, taxis, busses, and trucks. I have driven tractor trailers from coast to coast accumulating over one million accident free miles.

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Laws quoted in this column are those of: The Motor Vehicle Act of the province of British Columbia Canada; and the Traffic By-laws of the City of Vancouver.

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Next week I will share with you my optimistic, and futuristic, view of how technology will cure road rage and automotive air pollution.

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