Deficient public transit systems create areas where owning a car is THE thing that lets you into the middle class - this is bad for the environment, bad for tra

Deficient public transit systems create areas where owning a car is THE thing that lets you into the middle class - this is bad for the environment, bad for traffic, and creates a barrier to social upward movement. Here on Long Island in New York, the bus system only serves /certain/ areas and the train system (Long Island Railroad) is expensive and designed to bring people to and from Manhattan and back and does anything else quite poorly. p.s. Anyone remember the Doctor Who episode Gridlock - where people actually lived and died in traffic? (: