We Interrupt Our Usual Program

To bring you this: I've been looking over a special section in The New York Times, devoted to 100 years of subterranean transit. Yeah, it's the Times version of events--there are others--but for those of us who believe in choice, i.e., convenient, effective public transit should be an available option to everyone, not just those living in flagship cities, it's not a bad overview.

Interurban transit would likewise be nice. Yesterday, for peace of mind, I took a rental car down to New Iberia--my commute to work vehicle probably could have made it, but no sense in taking chances (these days the transmission occasionally decided to balk at using the overdrive gear). At least five times in a roughy 80 mile drive I witnessed complete stupidity in action--vehicles changing lanes without checking, vehicles going WAY too fast, or driving halfway on the shoulder, etc. And it was a nice day.

When it rains--like today--you can almost bet on the local news reporting a "chain reaction crash" somewhere in town--with even odds that there are severe injuries or deaths. But, I guess that's just the price of freedom, eh? Forty thousand deaths a year...