All respect to Mr. Fudge for his comments, but his offering of Cassius's line is incomplete. In telling Brutus that their woes could not or should not be blamed on "the stars," he was speaking of Caesar's bullying, world-bestriding ways, and the whole line is this: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

As I sit here in the family waiting room outside of the Kentucky Children's Hospital's pediatric intensive care unit, I am intensely wary of any moves to designate opposing sides in an issue - the issue of these lanes and their design - where clearly nobody wants anything but improved safety for all users of the public roads. But other things are equally clear. Poor road design DOES lead to accidents, and no matter how completely or incompletely we choose to quote Shakespeare, we, the users of the roads, are the underlings to those who made - years ago now - the political decisions to (under)fund and go forward with this project as implemented. - Christopher Rowe