Public transportation may be a fine idea in a mild climate like Seattle's, but I suspect that the people who are for it never waited for a bus in bitter cold. They also never stood in the snow while the buses passed them by, crammed with suburbanites afraid to drive in snow. They never walked to a stop in hot sultry weather and arrived at work sweaty, disheveled and looked-down-upon. They never worried that the last bus would leave while a boss demanded more and more overtime.

I've done all these things, and I have little use for public transportation.