Cars, bikes, transit, and virtue signaling

Jim Swanson

This story---and the essential reader comments---on Daily Kos is the most entertaining and informative I've read in a long time. (The critical details that public transit and bike advocates miss):

I don’t like driving, and I don’t like having to drive. But since I often have to, it becomes clear to me why attempts to limit car use in most of the United States, to get people to shift to bicycles and public transit (usually buses), are doomed to fail. Reducing the carbon footprint of our transportation will thus require a more practical, less virtue-signaling approach....