Common Sense, not social justice
The Sane Streets Initiative relies on common sense traffic planning, not social justice goals, attempts to create “equity” through traffic laws and lane usage, or attempts to discourage car use through punitive traffic laws and lane striping in the belief it will help climate issues.
The guidelines below will be updated as new issues are discovered that hinder automobile traffic flows
All traffic planning shall follow these guidelines:
- 1. Automobiles and their traffic flows are given the highest priority in planning.
- 2. Adequate parking for automobiles will continue to be enforced to ensure automobiles have the easiest access to downtown areas, malls, or any other business districts as well as travel to and from residential areas.
- 3. Bus routes must accommodate automobile traffic flows.
- 4. No dedicated bus lanes. Mixed flow only. Bus travel times are never a priority over automobile travel times and convenience.
- 5. Dedicated bike lanes on streets should be removed in favor of parking and car lanes.
- 6. No mixed use automobile and bike or bus and bike lanes.
- 7. Cross walk signals allow “Walk” only with the flow of traffic, and “Walk only” signals with all traffic stopped eliminated. School crossings exempted from this with priorities for crossing guards.
- 8. Pedestrian cross walks must be used sparingly, as they instill pedestrians with overconfidence and lead to more pedestrian injuries and deaths
What do you need to do in order to join the Sane Streets Initiative?
Nothing!
That’s right, nothing. If you are a member of a local city council, county government or state government that has not joined in with the madness of social justice through street planning, then you’re a step ahead of the everyone else. Continue using common sense to plan your city’s growth using the guidelines above.
But if you are a member of a local or state government that has inherited traffic planning from a previous administration that is starting or has started the failing social justice traffic planning?
Well, that gets more difficult. Your first task is to gently lead people away from their belief that implementing “equitable” streets is best for everyone and that it makes them a good person for advocating those kinds of streets.
Once you do that, you can lead them to the data, the science and history that has shown that the new street initiatives are bad: Bad for business, bad for homeowners, bad for auto owners, and that trying to reduce climate change is not achieved by believing traffic planning laws can punish drivers into changing their behavior.
Remember drivers are not doing anything wrong by driving cars, except in the minds of the activists who demonize them.
We all try to do what’s best, and equitable streets is not best for anyone.