No one ever drives five blocks in my downtown. They drive one block. And stop at a light that just turned red.
It doesn’t have to be a big town. It doesn’t have to be a shiny town, full of cheerleaders that hype all the lists that declare it THE BEST. I dream of a town that doesn’t require the finest dining or a water feature or major league sports. I don’t even need working mass transit. Or buildings that touch the clouds.since a Black man named Garret Augustus Morgan got the patent in the Roaring Twenties.
In my darkest moments I sit alone at red lights, waiting on nobody at all to cross before me. Waiting. Waiting. I think to myself “OF COURSE PEOPLE GET SHOT EVERYDAY” in my town. We have epidemic Post Road Rage Stress Syndrome from all that stopping and waiting and starting and braking. And breaking.
I don’t really believe the stop-and-go traffic in my downtown causes shootings. A proliferation of guns and buffoonery does that. But it makes as much sense as anything. Because every time I drive five blocks I WANT TO SHOOT SOMEONE, though I really don’t ever want to shoot anyone at all. So I’m left to dream of a town where traffic engineers let people drive safely and economically and continuously, where the computing power of the globe helps make traffic as simple and sensible as when engineers managed it all with slide rules, when people flooded downtown and they got to work on time.
John Archibald Opinion Birmingham Traffic
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