re: #301 albusteve

get rid of you car…seems logical enough, if your question is serious

Yes, well, if you could prove scientifically that immediate abandonment of all personal internal-combustion vehicles by Americans (excluding the rest of the world) would save the planet without fail, I’m afraid the planet would just have to go hang. This is what I mean when I talk about one person’s essentials being another’s luxuries, and vice versa. It’s the vice versa part that kills.

Thanks to the rest of you for your (now favorited) links.

As for mass transit, I currently live in a village that once had a rail link to a town from whence you could go to Boston or New York. That disappeared about eighty years ago. Nothing much I can do about that.

If I were still living in Baltimore, I would take mass transit starting the day when people who ride busses get covered shelters to wait in and not just a sign that says “bus stop” where you get splashed with dreck as the cars go by. Riding busses in Baltimore is a way to learn what “second-class citizen” means in practice.