[Glenn]

Screw "public transportation". .

I've been using public transportation for the last 3 months and I love it. An hour and ten minutes of peace and quiet where I can read, watch a video, solve a puzzle or just veg-out. I save a lot of money. Done well, public transportation is a good thing, in my opinion.

[Godwin1]

If you live in some big cities, you can use it. I own a car but take Chicago’s “EL” train to work downtown every day. on the car in a year. It takes about 20 minutes each way. During rush hours, the car would take nearly forty and I’d have to pay exorbitant daily or weekly parking fees when I got there. During the rush hour passengers are folks like me—going and coming from their 9-5 jobs. The EL may be less pleasant at 2 or 3 in the morning, but even then service is fairly frequent and reliable. But then I live a block from the station and my office is about 30 yards from the stop at the other end. I live in an urban setting where I can walk to the supermarket, church, restaurants, coffee houses, doctors and the local hospital. Tradeoff: I live in a small, cramped apartment. If I lived in a large comfortable home in one of the Chicago area’s pleasant suburbs, I would have to take the car nearly everywhere. Public transport is only viable for city folks prepared to make lifestyle tradeoffs. It’s wrong to suggest it can be an option for all, or even most, of the country. We need cars in America.