Slow Your Driving Down, Save At the Pump, and Keep Our Streets and Neighborhoods Safe

When visiting in Woodbridge, a nice neighborhood here in Irvine, CA, showing a property with a client two days ago on Saturday, I saw a car zoom by at about 45 MPH in a 25 MPH residential zone.

Wow! I was surprised, because Irvine is known for its safe and peaceful streets.

Then I thought that this young driver must not care about saftey for the kids of the neighborhood ... or about the price of gasoline at the pump.

What's the hurry? Isn't it enough that we have $5 a gallon at the fuel pump? Does this young driver care about the cost of fuel? Or is it necessary that a young child get smacked on the street by a driver who doesn't care? What will it take for this young driver to slow it down?

Let's live life in the slower lane. You get better gas mileage in your car when operating at lower speeds. And we will all get safer streets ... fewer deaths and injuries from auto wrecks.

The State of California has banned the use of cell phones by drivers of motors vehicles. Isn't the same public interest served if we slow down when driving a motor vehicle? Especially in residential neighborhoods?

Let's slow our driving down ... save money at the pump ... and keep out streets and neighborhoods safe.

Posted by Harrison K. Long, Explore Properties Group, July 28, 2008