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Editor:
Whatever happened to courtesy on the roads? Every evening when I leave for work, I see people pulling out of their parking spaces and rushing toward the gates.
Persons pulling out of a parking space are at a disadvantage because you can’t see cars coming until you’re out in the street.
Wouldn’t it be nice if a person would just slow down and let that person out onto the road or else lightly tap your horn to let that person know you are there instead of flying right past them?
Also, what is wrong with showing other drivers courtesy by letting them merge into traffic from a center lane? It’s amazing how many people will speed up to keep a person from merging.
It’s also amazing the number of people who have no respect for the speed limits here on post. We all know there is a 20 mph speed limit in front of Patton Junior High School and by the football field on Grant Avenue.
Every morning I see people fly through both of these areas like the speed limit doesn’t apply to them. These speed limits were put there for a reason — mainly, I believe, to protect our children. I’m sure that if something would happen to these drivers’ children in these speed limit areas that they would be the first to be kicking and screaming that more should have been done to protect their children.
Come on people, wake up and show some courtesy. Remember the child that could be hit by someone speeding through the 20 mph speed limits could be your own and then how would you feel?
Janis Virant
Fort Leavenworth
Editor:
Whatever happened to courtesy on the roads? Every evening when I leave for work, I see people pulling out of their parking spaces and rushing toward the gates.
Persons pulling out of a parking space are at a disadvantage because you can’t see cars coming until you’re out in the street.
Wouldn’t it be nice if a person would just slow down and let that person out onto the road or else lightly tap your horn to let that person know you are there instead of flying right past them?
Also, what is wrong with showing other drivers courtesy by letting them merge into traffic from a center lane? It’s amazing how many people will speed up to keep a person from merging.
It’s also amazing the number of people who have no respect for the speed limits here on post. We all know there is a 20 mph speed limit in front of Patton Junior High School and by the football field on Grant Avenue.
Every morning I see people fly through both of these areas like the speed limit doesn’t apply to them. These speed limits were put there for a reason — mainly, I believe, to protect our children. I’m sure that if something would happen to these drivers’ children in these speed limit areas that they would be the first to be kicking and screaming that more should have been done to protect their children.
Come on people, wake up and show some courtesy. Remember the child that could be hit by someone speeding through the 20 mph speed limits could be your own and then how would you feel?
Janis Virant
Fort Leavenworth
