My sentiments exactly

This letter to the Pittsburgh City Paper gets the closest to my mixed feelings about the looming Pittsburgh transit crisis. In short, it’s not a nice thing to do, but some things need to change.

What kills me are stories like those of Ellen Fox, who, while looking like a perfectly nice lady, expects to carry on her normal daily routine that is, to some degree, absurd. While it is nice that she has been able to sustain her 13 mile trip from her home to downtown to transfer to another bus that takes her 20-odd miles north of the city, I can’t get behind the argument that this uber-commute is the “normal” way to do things.

But what do I know of normal? We probably paid too much for a small place right by a noisy bus stop and some railroad tracks.

But boy, do I enjoy walking to work – and just about everywhere else too.

March 15 2007