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What If You Behaved Like an Obnoxious Road Hog at the Supermarket?

1:36 PM EDT on May 21, 2014

This PSA, produced by the Norwegian government, does a brilliant job reminding people that the way you act behind the wheel affects everyone around you. Wouldn't it be nice if people observed the same decorum driving a car on city streets as they do pushing a cart in the grocery store aisles?

Angie Schmitt
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

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