04-30-2020, 02:26 PM
(04-30-2020, 02:16 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote:(04-30-2020, 01:52 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Back up on that high horse again.First of all, I dont say "Meh", I am not 14 years old. You were saying above that is was ridiculous to have a fenced off walkway to keep pedestrian's safe from the vehicles in the parking lot. I am trying to understand why you are against a safety measure even if it is slightly inconvenient. Then you try to use an example of a pedestrian walking in a crosswalk who is struck by a vehicle as a "point" to a conversation about a private parking lot. You draw a conclusion that I have no compassion or sense of empathy for that unfortunate situation ? Then you need to add a comment about being on a high horse ? My comment about "Time for self reflection and some emotional intelligence" was a statement for me. Like, time for me to go have a drink.
I'm pointing out that we have yet another example of a driver running down a pedestrian in this area, and you're like "meh, not relevant", when it is in fact, the whole point, so yeah, continue to point fingers at me, maybe I was wrong to say you were defending them, but you are defending the status quo situation which creates harms like this.
I've crossed that intersection a dozen times, I can see me being run over, and it makes me so angry. It's literally one of the worst places to be a pedestrian in the city, yet has a transit station...
It is not a safety measure. No person is protected by this from any harm. Businesses are protected from risk. You'll notice there are parking spaces directly along the fence, those spaces will be filled with cars...cars which have occupants....who will then walk to the business.
Forcing someone to walk further through the parking lot does not make them safer. Nor will the fence stop an out of control car (although it could prevent someone from escaping an out of control person in or out of a car). So if we could stop pretending this is for anything other than protecting business from change, that'd be great.
"My comment about "Time for self reflection and some emotional intelligence" was a statement for me." -- hey fair enough, but that sentence has no subject, and the previous three sentences had an explicit "you" as a the subject, so you'll have to forgive me for missinterpting.