This morning, enroute to pick up a stranded co-worker as a result of the public transit strike, I pondered something. Why do so many citizens in Metro take public transit? I’m sure for a chosen few they base their rationale on environmental concerns. One less car polluting the air space will someday help with our carbon footprint and maybe stop that ever increasing hole in the ozone. For others perhaps, it’s a lifestyle choice. They live near their workplace and having a car doesn’t make sense. It could be due to the health benefits of walking to and from work or even to the bus stop. There is a percentage of the population that for medical reasons take transit as they are unable to drive. Many of us despise traffic and would probably prefer to leave the frustration of the merges and bumper to bumper traffic to someone else while engaging themselves in less stressful activity such as reading a book, listening to music or watching an eclectic mix of similar commuters.
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