When you move along at a casual pace, he appreciates a long rein to give him room to move. Your horse is highly attuned to how you hold and cue with the reins. If they feel good to you, you’ll relax in the saddle and enjoy long rides. If your reins are too long, too much to hold, or are just uncomfortable, you’ll tend to shorten your trail rides. Welcome to San Diego! Be here now so you can still be here later.On the trail, your reins need to be safe and functional and help your horse quickly and easily understand the slightest cue.Īnd, your reins need to be comfortable.
Ask yourself, “Do I really need to read that email/make that call/check that traffic report?” Tune in. You will have to look out for both of you. If you are driving, keep an eye out for pedestrians who have no idea what is going on around them. If you are crossing the street, stop looking at your phone and make sure the car people are looking at you. Judging by the statistics, this is not the no-brainer you’d think it would be. We all have texts demanding to be answered, coffee begging to be quaffed and navigation systems trying to send us to who-knows-where.īut when we are on the road, we need to look out for each other while also policing ourselves.
And let us not forget Pacific Beach, which tourists and partygoers have turned into the jaywalking capital of San Diego. San Diego City College students crossing C Street at dusk, dashing between cars when they could be using the lighted pedestrian crossing just a few feet away. If I had looked away for a second, she and her little dog might have been toast. Last week, I made a right turn onto Ninth Avenue downtown, and came very close to hitting a young woman who was trotting across the street against the light and halfway between the crosswalks conveniently located at both ends of the block.
On the flip side, we also have too many pedestrians ignoring the nearest crosswalk because it is apparently not near enough. (The City Council has approved a $5 million proposal to make University between Fairmount and Euclid avenues more pedestrian and bicycle friendly, so help is on the way there.) If you have walked in these neighborhoods, you may have taken the desperate plunge yourself. If you have driven on University Avenue in City Heights or, say, Chatsworth Boulevard in Loma Portal, you know the risks pedestrians take just to cross the road. On the one hand, we have many long stretches in urban areas where there are no crosswalks in sight, which means more people crossing in the middle of the block, where more cars are likely to hit them.
The biggest problems I see on local streets are a shortage of crosswalks and an increase in people not using the crosswalks we do have. So if you are a San Diego pedestrian who wants to live to see another beautiful SoCal day, put your phone away, take out at least one ear bud, and listen up. Unfortunately, when distracted driver meets distracted walker, the pedestrian is the one who pays. I can also tell you that drivers are not any better. So it is up to us to protect ourselves.Īs someone who is both a walker and a driver, I can tell you that my fellow pedestrians can be careless idiots. Like Los Angeles, where the car is also king, San Diego has been behind the curve when it comes to protecting its pedestrians.
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