You don’t own the road, it’s a public space.

“What do you think, you own the road?” a driver yells at a bicyclist legally riding in the lane ahead of him. Meanwhile, drivers indiscriminately honk their horns in a traffic jam. Micro tragedies of the commons play out daily on streets everywhere, their bit players none the wiser. We would be better, and happier, to flip the script in our minds and start to see streets as a public resource. The act of using them isn’t a right, rather a responsibility toward our fellow citizen. Then we can expand our mindset from individual self-interest to shared interest of getting where we need to go safely, efficiently, and happily.