The Beltway

Surrounding the Washington,  DC, area is the Capital Beltway. The Beltway is an interstate highway that circles Washington, DC. It is both a wonderful road, and a total nightmare. This morning was a total nightmare, just like it is every morning, as well as every afternoon during rush hour. DC now has the worst traffic in the country. A lot of that is because of the expansion of the Federal government in recent years. Public transportation has not kept up with the demand for a variety of reasons. Also, as I was on the Beltway this morning, heading to the Silver Spring parking garage, so I could ride public transportation for the rest of my trip (yes hippies, I'm doing my part for the environment, which most of you don't), I noticed that just about every single car had only one person in it. Most of them are government workers going to work.

We need to do something about the traffic in DC. Public transportation needs to be improved and made more convenient. Metro and Metrobus need to run 24/7. As far as funding, I have no problem with public funding for public transportation. Yea I  know, that goes against conservative principles. Also, as long as we are becoming a nanny state society, for the "common good," let's make it a requirement for all government workers to use public transportation to commute to work. Could you imagine how much public transportation would improve if those over educated liberal white people from the suburbs were forced to ride the bus with the lower classes that they claim to embrace, but really despise? It just might be the catalyst to remind them that they are public SERVANTS!!!!!