A site for sore eyes?

Martin Cassini

Who is the better judge of when or how fast to go: you and me at the time and the place, or lights and limits fixed by absent regulators?

If we can judge when to cross the road if we're on foot (though in the US we face arrest for the fabricated crime of jaywalking), why, when we're on wheels, do we become incapable of deciding for oursleves?

Yes, I'm staking out another field of combat against the traffic control dictatorship, and for a humane approach to life on the roads. Love is all you need, but the current system fosters intolerance and hate. "I'm on the main road, so you pedestrians and side road traffic can f**k off!" That is the culture nurtured by the rules of the road, based as they are on the anti-social idea of main road priority.

In other walks of life we take it in turns. We let others go who were there before us. But on the roads we must obey directional priority, which imposes unequal rights-of-way and makes us act against our better nature. It turns roads into conflict zones where we have to fight for survival, gaps and green time. It's a state of affairs that's accepted without question. We complain about the traffic and blame other drivers, but could it be traffic controls that are the problem?