Unnecessary driving. A mini rant.

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Hi. Why do many people use their car to drive 4 blocks to the store, pick up potato chips or other obviously easy-to-carry items and come back home 5 minutes later? I was on my porch earlier this afternoon, and I saw my neighbors do that 2 times. They could walk, saving nasty emissions and getting some exercise. The funny thing is that these folks recycle every week and all that. I wish all the parking enforcement people keep whining about and the difficulty in finding parking to begin with, at least resulted in less unnecessary driving. There, that's my pedestrian mini rant.

Comments

Re: I hate pedestrians who cross when cars have a green light as well!

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

the real rub is the many crosswalks (central, anyone?) who give pedestrians a walk signal at the same time drivers get a green light. unless you know it's screwed up like that, you don't expect a flood of people to walk out just as you hit the gas. very dangerous.

Re: I hate pedestrians who cross when cars have a green light as well!

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way. Freaked me right the frak out when I noticed that...

Re: I hate pedestrians who cross when cars have a green light as well!

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

i also just re-read my comment and realized i talked about a crosswalk as a person XD /fail