Dear Commercial Drive Pedestrians:

Dear Commercial Drive Pedestrians:

I'm one of those invisible drivers of those seemingly invisible vehicles into the direct path of which you wander, jump, meander or dart with apparently no worries of being struck, maimed, injured and/or killed.

Crosswalks. Walk/Don't Walk lights, corners. Any of these things ringing bells in your heads? No, that noise you're hearing is an ambulance.....

What IS it with people on the Drive? I KNOW BC Bud mellows people out, I know that if one breathes too deeply on the Drive while walking between 1st and Napier one can get totally stoned, but people, please....watch where you are going!

It can't be just me. People just step off curbs, or from between parked cars, or against lights and assume drivers will stop. They do it holding the hands of children. They do it dragging dogs on leashes, or with dogs off leash and trailing them. They seem totally oblivious to the fact that several tons of steel (or fiberglass, or whatever) could mow them down in the blink of an eye.

I don't want to hit a pedestrian. The thought of injuring another creature (human or otherwise) while driving, is distressing. The fact that Jaywalkers are the authors of their own misfortune doesn't make the thought any less horrible.

I avoid the Drive like the plague when I'm in a vehicle, but sometimes being on the Drive in a car is unavoidable. Those times are moments of serious stress, just because some people think they are invincible.

News flash, people.....generally when it's vehicle vs pedestrian, the pedestrian loses. Big!