The US is not Europe. Americans live much more dispersed over "suburbs". This despite the utopian fantasies of city planners isn't going to change. So it's hard to find someone to commute with. Harder still is our work hours. Euros are basically 9 to 5. Americans work longer hours anc more different hours. At my company folks work between 8-11 hours here and there. Too hard to sync up with a fellow commuter even IF they lived nearby.

So the question is...why should taxpayers like moi fund unelected govt folks to make their daily commute LONGER and more miserable? Note that ion places where citizens were able to influence their elected representatives, those pro-HOV reps reversed themselves because of citizen outcry. It mystifies me why we have to stop our family lives and working lives to spend time to undo what our govt does to us.

-p