An Open Letter to MLA Kendra Coombes

Kendra Coombes is the New Democrat Critic for Public Works, in Nova Scotia Kendra (since you called me Tim), Yesterday morning, the start of the Labour Day Holiday weekend, you sent me an email with the subject line: What’s causing your road rage? The subject line almost caused an immediate send to Trash as spam. The term ‘road rage’ is an attempt to justify bad driving or frustrations with traffic as something drivers can’t help. I admit, there have been times when I have been angry with other drivers: my three almost head-on collisions when I’ve encountered drivers on the wrong side of the road, and the driver that ran a red light and T-boned my car when my six-week-old infant was in the back (thanks to a child car seat and the particular physics of that crash, no injuries to them, and mine were cuts and bruises). My anger at other drivers has never lasted beyond a few minutes. So, no road rage here. But I read the email to see what the issue was. Apparently, road rage is caused by…