"Slow Down . . . You Move Too Fast"

"You got to make the morning last."

Have you noticed how everyone seems to be in a hurry to get somewhere?

This past Saturday night around 5:50PM, I was driving west on San Miguel Road. I had just picked up a friend and we were joining others at the new San Giorgios Sourdough Pizza place.

As I approached the intersection at Bonita Road / Bonita Road (Bonita Bridge), the light turned yellow.

Unable to make it across the intersection in time, I slowed to a halt as the light turned red.

The car behind me revved their engine and passed me blindly on the left and almost clipped me. A car entering the left turn lane on the Bonita Road side slowed just enough to let the speeding car corkscrew around them and race down Bonita Road. Had the narrowly missed car been just 10 seconds earlier, there would have been a head-on collision at a high rate of speed.

I'm seeing a lot of this type of careless driving on Bonita-Sunnyside roads lately. People seem to have forgotten than an automobile can be a deadly weapon.

I don't believe that it is the locals. We're usually headed a hop, skip & jump down the road and our community is just not that big to get up to high speed before reaching our destination.

I think it's probably cut-through traffic from the Chula Vista / Eastlake area avoiding the toll on the SR-125. They often seem in a big hurry to get somewhere fast.

I think now is the time to open a new discussion about this 10,000-car migration through our residential streets daily. Someone is going to get injured or worse. We're sitting on a ticking time bomb and it's time to defuse it.

Lyrics from "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by Simon & Garfunkel, 1966

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