bike path, I come to the intersection of Fell and Masonic. This is
pretty much a disaster of an intersection and has so many accidents at
it that someone painted this on the path before you get to the intersection
Fair warning indeed.
I don't know about you guys, but between the tragedy on Stevens Creek
Reservoir, the serious wreck of another crew on Skyline on the Peninsula
that day, Sean with a hit-and-run, me getting nailed by a semi and
countless others...I'm just sick of cars and car drivers.
I will grant that cars are convenient and to a not-insignificant degree
represent "freedom" to a lot of people. But did it ever occur to you why
it is convenient? By which I mean, the tremendous auto-based
infrastructure of roads, gas and service stations, traffic devices, laws
and law enforcement, financial instruments (loans and insurance) and on
and on. All those things make it convenient now, but that's a lot of
infrastructure.
And for what? Have you ever considered how noisy, dirty, dangerous, and
open-space consuming all these cars and the associated infrastructure
is? Imagine for a moment what city life would be like without honking
horns and flatulent Harley's in the middle of the night. What it would
be like to look towards the Bay and not see 20 roads and 2 freeways. Or
what it would be like to ride a bicycle legally without getting
seriously injured.
Might be nice...might be so nice it would make the investment in an
alternative infrastructure for transportation worth it.
Doesn't hurt to dream.
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