Not Rocket Surgery

When a big storm hits your little town, and everybody scurries home from work and school at the same exact time, and there are few alternatives to driving a car to get from Point A to B, you're going to have some hellacious gridlock, and it's pointless to blame elected officials for it. You want to fix the problem, then insist the government provide more public transit options than are currently available. Of course, this means that all the rich "makers" who live in the suburbs will have to pay more in taxes to run transit lines from the 'burbs to the urban core where all the poor "takers" live. In places like the South, of course, that's why public transit is typically lousy---because de white folks don't want their tax dollars going to improve the mobility of "those people." But whether you chalk it up to greed or racism or just plain shortsightedness, when you have a situation like they've got in Atlanta right now, it's probably because local politics have willed it that way, and changing figureheads won't make any difference if there's no accompanying change in policy.

---Baron V