If it isn’t the triple-stop-sign intersection outside the bookstore that begs to be ignored, the east entrance traffic-jam every 55 minutes or entertaining the impossible idea that one can make a right turn onto Stevens Creek Boulevard from the North Entrance, there is always something that will make driving at De Anza atrocious.

However, the traffic only seems to occur when classes are in session. During the summer or weekends, the problems with De Anza traffic cease to exist.

Even when there is some event at the Flint Center, or a car show, traffic is still manageable. Neither the mass exodus nor congregation of vehicles put the same kind of strain on De Anza’s roads as five minutes when classes are in session.

The only difference between an event at the Flint Center in the late hours of the evening and the same road at nine in the morning is the pedestrian students.

The problem, therefore, is not an excess of cars or stop signs, but the fact that walking students – locals and those who attempt to avoid parking at De Anza – and driving students are forced to coexist. This coexistence is what makes the North Entrance a joke of civic engineering and the East Entrance an hourly exercise in patience. It’s also what makes the South Entrance a ghost town.

Little to no foot-traffic has made the South Entrance brutally efficient as an exit. It doesn’t hurt to mention that it is an exit to exactly nowhere anyone wants to go. No coexistence means no traffic.

If only a mythical entrance/exit existed which could dump all the vehicles into parking lots without the hassle of Campus Drive or pedestrians in cross-walks.

They do, actually. But they remain unused.

There are two sets of entrances and exits along Stevens Creek Boulevard, one for the Flint Center, the other for Lot A. The specialized exits spit drivers out to Stevens Creek east and Highway 85. Were these exits and entrances used more often, there would be less vehicular traffic at the main entrances, less obstruction by wandering pedestrians and, dare I say, the intersections might actually start resembling something built by a civil engineer.

Perhaps these entrances, entirely devoid of foot traffic, ought to be used?

No, they should not. Doing so would require De Anza students to sit in their cars, waiting for mere minutes for a light to turn green or the car ahead of them to move forward. This could take up to 10 minutes! This is an unbearable torture we should not ask our fellow students to endure. Which is why they choose to endure an even longer time in their cars at the main entrances.

Clearly, we should just kill all the pedestrians, and eat them.