Commuting Costs
* Re “Local Drivers Pay Price for Living Outside L.A., “ Dec. 1.
Isn’t it time we returned the auto to [being] an instrument of pleasure rather than of necessity?
The battle of the daily commute has to indicate a tremendous effort by our transportation engineers to initiate a mass rapid-transit system for the survival of our species.
The daily carnage on our highways from overcrowding cries out for relief.
The excessive amounts of real estate lost to freeways for the comfort of a car culture has to be revisited in a serious manner.
ART KINNE
Ventura
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