When We Were Cars

Pub date May 1, 2007
WriterSarah Phelan
SectionPolitics Blog

By Sarah Phelan

Somehow I assumed public transit would remain free for a week, after Sunday’s meltdown. Silly me.
Never mind headlines about yesterday’s commute, warning that “Monday was easy–but that won’t last.”
Today, we’re back to paying for ferries, buses and BART–a move that will likely get commuters back into their car–and into traffic jams. Makes perfect (non) sense to me. Either way, I’m gonna keep on enjoying the brilliance of not driving, which feels a bit like this photo of traffic on the Bay Bridge, which is titled the “Traffic jam I wasn’t in.”
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