I'm a tree hugging city-dweller. The article's beginning of bashing my regular transit really turned me off. I don't think $10 is representative. A 30-day CTA

I'm a tree hugging city-dweller. The article's beginning of bashing my regular transit really turned me off. I don't think $10 is representative. A 30-day CTA pass is $100 and a 1-year Divvy pass is $99. For people that use these transit options regularly, this trip sound like it would have been easy. The train was really so hot and rank on a brisk October day? I agree that subways, bikes, and buses are not ideal. They are what we have in mass quantities right now. I do want better transit in the future. Tell me the story about that grand future. I don't want to bash the present non-car transit, when there are no alternatives yet. Once I pushed through, I did appreciate the categorization of 3 commuters: Time Trumpers, Everyday Improvers, and Experience Seekers.