Bulldroppings

As I was digging around in my links collection for my post on hard-headedness, I also found a blog post supporting a claim I've seen made elsewhere--that to make our roads safer, we have to address the root of the safety problem.

Our society understands the root problem fairly well, as it turns out, but we aren't willing to do anything (or the right things) about it. One blogger refers to this in terms of the bull in the china shop analogy. The bull (auto use), breaks the china (soft road users like pedestrians and cyclists) with regularity, yet rather than harness the bull, we bubble-wrap the china or even wonder why it's there on the shelves of the china shop!

It's a long read, but worth some time.