The other day, as I was crossing the street in the crosswalk with a solid walk signal, a cop, no lights or siren on, almost turned right into me (or left into me). Which got me thinking: what chance do pedestrians have if the police don't even care about them?
It all goes back to the age-old rivalry: man vs. car. Clearly in a rock-paper-scissors-type matchup, car would kill man. However, one has to consider that without man, the car could not operate. So, essentially, man would kill man. Then, to complete the rock-paper-scissors trifecta, you'd have to include the cop. The cop pulls over the car, but saves the man. So isn't it ironic that the cop in my story is in the role of car rather than that of cop? What this paragraph has to do with my story is so little that after rereading it, I wonder why I am not deleting it.
Back to pedestrians. Sure, when I'm driving around, they get on my nerves sometimes. Usually, though, these are instances in which they are breaking the rules of the road in some way. In my case, I could not have been following the rules more closely, and I still felt alienated.
Plus, when are cars in Madison going to realize that pedestrians are an inevitable nuisance? Thousands of students walk to class everyday. One would think that eventually drivers would be aware of this and therefore be more understanding. Yet more and more, they seem to be oblivious to this seemingly obvious fact.
This is why I propose bridges that extend over the entire campus linking all of the buildings. It would free up the streets for the cars and would be a faster and safer way for pedestrians to get to their classes. Hell, I'll chip in an extra fifty bucks in my tuition if they make them those moving paths you see in airports.
It all goes back to the age-old rivalry: man vs. car. Clearly in a rock-paper-scissors-type matchup, car would kill man. However, one has to consider that without man, the car could not operate. So, essentially, man would kill man. Then, to complete the rock-paper-scissors trifecta, you'd have to include the cop. The cop pulls over the car, but saves the man. So isn't it ironic that the cop in my story is in the role of car rather than that of cop? What this paragraph has to do with my story is so little that after rereading it, I wonder why I am not deleting it.
Back to pedestrians. Sure, when I'm driving around, they get on my nerves sometimes. Usually, though, these are instances in which they are breaking the rules of the road in some way. In my case, I could not have been following the rules more closely, and I still felt alienated.
Plus, when are cars in Madison going to realize that pedestrians are an inevitable nuisance? Thousands of students walk to class everyday. One would think that eventually drivers would be aware of this and therefore be more understanding. Yet more and more, they seem to be oblivious to this seemingly obvious fact.
This is why I propose bridges that extend over the entire campus linking all of the buildings. It would free up the streets for the cars and would be a faster and safer way for pedestrians to get to their classes. Hell, I'll chip in an extra fifty bucks in my tuition if they make them those moving paths you see in airports.
