From Keri Caffrey at Commute Orlando:
The roads are a public space where we all interact every day. What happens there affects our state of mind, the way we feel about our fellow citizens and the place we live. When the roads are a place of stress, anger and hostility, we carry it into our workplaces, our homes and other public spaces. When the roads are a place of cooperation and tolerance, the positive energy carries forward into the rest of the community. We give our citizens greater freedom to chose walking and bicycling, which in turn enhances quality of life and human interaction within the community. It is a positive spiral of livability that begins with each individual making a choice of how to behave in the commons.