[PRCo] Re: Fwd: In Traffic’s Jam, (corrected)

[Dennis F. Cramer]

Unfortunately, New York is in the middle of the Washington-Boston metroplex 
and the Cross Bronx does provide a short way to New England.  Mass transit
is often not an answer.  Several of the students at Purchase drive up from 
Manhattan everyday to actually save time.  For example:  take the subway to
Grand Central-the MetroNorth to White Plains and the bus to Purchase is 
about 2 to 2.5 hours with an instrument strapped to your back.  Not the most 
fun thing in the world to do.

I do enjoy having the mass transit available and have used it regularly 
since I have lived in Westchester County.  After all, I live at home, in an 
area (rural Kittanning) that is served by no mass transit within walking 
distance of my home.  My wife and I use mass transit whenever we can in 
Washington, DC and have used it in Boston, NY, St. Louis, Chicago and SF.

People like to be independent and the automobile is one of the crowning 
achievements of that independence in the USA.  Do you want to be in a 
crowded subway with all of those "people" or do you want to sit in a traffic 
jam, listening to your favorite music, talking on the phone, doing your 
make-up, etc.?  We love our independence and forget about what it costs. 
Also do not forget, the "terrorists" will attack those subways some day.
Just put the vent in your car on recirculate and you can drive right though 
the anthrax attack. <VBG>

The peak of the transit industry was circa 1918.  I wonder what caused the 
rapid decline from there on?  Can anyone say Henry Ford?  There were no 
conspiracies or hidden agendas, just a desire for more independence.

Dennis Fred Cramer
     Trombone