Ryan ChartrandIn response to Angel Pacheco’s opinion piece (“What’s with the need for speed?” May 31), the problem is not that motorists want to run over pedestrians – it’s that pedestrians are begging to be run over.
Pedestrians on this campus cross the road like f-king idiots, and that’s the nicest way I can put it. They cross the street blabbing on their cell phones, or listening to their iPods, yet they don’t look for traffic before they cross.
Remember that thing your parents taught you? Look both ways before you cross the street?
Also, some students at Cal Poly with real majors do have to get to class on time. Being five minutes late to any of my classes means I missed a lot of valuable information.
Pedestrians cause an insanely huge amount of traffic build-up and cause motorists to become frustrated and drive inappropriately. During busy hours of the day, pedestrians cross one at a time following each other five to 10 feet apart, and rarely let cars pass.
Maybe if a pedestrian would yield for a few cars then “the need for speed” problem would be resolved as there would not be as much traffic congestion.
By the way, introducing students to control traffic on campu,s like by Campus Market in the morning, was an awesome idea since pedestrians can’t seem to help solve the problem by just letting some cars pass by.
I’m lucky and get to pass all the traffic on my motorcycle. I feel sorry for anyone who drives during busy times of the day, because if I drove a car to campus, I would have “the need for speed” as well.
Damien Micallef
Aerospace engineering senior