Tuesday, June 18, 2002

I love to drive--most of the time. I have the standard complaints--too much traffic, drivers that do not pay attention, endless delays due to construction. However, I do not see an alternative to the car.

If you live and work in a major city, public transit, including subway and rail, make sense. However, many, many real families moved to the suburbs over the past decades in search of larger homes, better schools, and a better quality of life. Those people, who pay large amounts of taxes, are not well served by public transit. The distances that have to be covered from suburb to city make the requisite number of stops--AKA delays--equal to bad traffic days every day.

More on this later.