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There you were sitting in your white Leaf with your bicycle license plate at 76th and Washington. My husband and I looked straight at you to make sure you could see us about the cross Washington as you fixed your hair and waited to turn left. We got the walk signal and got a quarter into the road, then you hit that gas pedal and drove right at us! And as we waived and yelled, did you even hit the brake? Nah! Not you! At the end of the day, you don’t care enough about the lives and well being of others to think for 3 seconds that the left turn signal and walk signal turn on at the same time all over the place, to wait a few seconds to let two human beings safely pass, or even brake once you fucked up. Do I wish PBOT would stop telling people to turn and walk in the same place? Of course, but unfortunately upgrading their signals to allow that is too expensive and doesn’t make the priority cut in a world where we can’t even have a basic gas tax. So we have to rely on each other and sometimes wait a few seconds for each other. When we decide to get where we’re going through a city in a vehicle casually capable of destroying lives in seconds, we are deciding to take on the responsibility to yield to pedestrians (both as a matter of law and a matter of deciding not to be a murderer by crass indifference). Pay attention and use your brakes, or turn in the keys.—Anonymous