Lewiston-Auburn area drivers are among the worst I have ever seen, and I have traveled across this country from coast to coast. They are inattentive; they don’t stop for people in crosswalks; they are always talking on their cell phones, not paying attention to where they are going.

Are their lives in so much turmoil they have to hurry to get home and get supper and hurry to that meeting they are 20 minutes late for?

They also have no regard for the rules of the road. The law clearly states, stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Most drivers don’t, nor do they even care. The law also says not to block intersections. Yet during rush hour, everybody is in such a hurry that most intersections in the Twin Cities are blocked with traffic. If an emergency vehicle approaches an intersection and traffic is bumper to bumper, how would it get through?

Last summer I was out in my electric wheelchair. I was in a crosswalk and had to wait for the walk signal to go through four cycles before I could safely cross the street because traffic was bumper to bumper and nobody had respect for people in the crosswalk. They blocked the intersection just so they could get on with their daily lives and with what they were doing or felt they had to do.

It is clear and apparent that people just don’t care as long as it doesn’t affect them.

Bruce Wotton, Lewiston