[LurkedLongEnough]

Is this lighthearted or serious? Since the readership is Connecticut, I tend to think the writer is actually serious.

[Glenn]

My car is a calming influence. I get in, start it up, find a nice highway and break the law while being careful. Gravity is both humbling and caressing. When I get out of the car, I am human again.

[from occupied ga]

Maybe the love affair with the automobile is a thing of the past.

Yep this liberal r-tard has it right, why everyone knows that the expressways are virtually empty and that the only cars on them are in the HOV lanes. As I walked the 12 miles to work this morning just to avoid my car I was unable to make very good time due to the vast numbers of other pedestrians on the sidewalks. Why some said that they walked 30 miles each way every day to avoid gettting in their cars. Some said that they'd walk a hundred miles just to avoid their cars < /sarcasm>

[Condor51]

"Maybe the love affair with the automobile is a thing of the past."

Ya Can't Get There From Here

/s

[Larry Lucido]

It's a slap at the internet, saying we don't communicate because it's all long distance.

But facts don't support his premise. The freeways are full and bars and restaurants are full.

What he apparently misses is the old days when you HAD to bitch about politics face to face to a small group of people who could only do that - just bitch. Now, we have the option to do the former while also networking with thousands across the country simultaneously and from time to time expose crooked politicians and medial personalities. Imagine that!

[SengirV]

Whatever

[NRA1995]

People can go to Match, Jdate, EHarmony and Match.com to start dating without even heading to a bar.

I've had better luck in AOL chatrooms (and they are VERY bad) than with any of the above services. Fifty levels of deep compatibility, my tush!

[Fierce Allegiance]

Hey, not everyone in CT is an idiot!

And no, I don't drive a car, mine's an SUV.

[Smokin' Joe]

Maybe the love affair with the automobile is a thing of the past.

HA!

My wife will give up her Lincoln when they pry her cold, dead hands from the steering wheel, and not until!

City folks. Sheesh!

[Zathras]

East Coast nonsense trying to socially engineer the rest of the contry.
LA is probably bigger than the entire state of Conneticut.

[Disambiguator]

The writer lives in the Eastern Megalopolis, where maybe you can get by without a car because everything is developed and conveniences abound in your own neighborhood.

Out west, where some of us live, things are more spread out, and public transit is fine if you don't want to actually go anywhere that's more than a mile from the bus stop or train depot.

Also, to all those "mass-transit" (read: public transit) proponents, consider this: privately owned vehicles are a form of mass transit. After all that's how most of "the masses" get around, and overall it's more efficient than buses and trains (in terms of time).

Obviously there are issues with traffic in some areas, but even with those obstacles, commuting in your own vehicle is faster and more convenient than taking the bus to the train, then another bus from the train, and then walking 3 or more blocks to your office, etc.

[Gideon Reader]

THIS may be the stupidest article I have ever read, not counting anything by Jimmy Carter of the ISG, of course.
As if I would undertake the 24 mile walk to my Physicians office or the 32 mile walk to my Dentist.
The sub-moronic writer of this article may not realize that there are actually people in this country that do NOT reside in urban areas with public transportation available. Dolt writes as Dolt is.

[Piquaboy]

I have to go 10 miles to get to a store. I suppose I could walk.

[jveritas]

What a stupid and factually wrong article! In what alternate world does this man live in?

[Old Professer]

Up there, Dominos probably has Snowcats.

[SuziQ]

Whattaa goober. What's more common among all these disparate elements is time and convenience. They have nothing to do with not wanting to use our cars.

[Centurion2000]

Maybe the love affair with the automobile is a thing of the past.

He certainly doesn't live in Texas. Autos are the key for dang near everything here. ESPECIALLY if you live in an Exurb.

[upchuck]

Maybe the love affair with the automobile is a thing of the past.

Until Star Trek like transporter technology is perfected,

Doubt it!

[dangus]

Yes, the car is now optional in midtown Manhattan. Duh. It has been for decades. Sorry, but the rest of the world doesn't have a subway every three blocks in every direction and a hundred thousand people per square mileto interact with and to fuel local businesses.

[CDHart]

The author should live in central Missouri. You have to have a car or a horse and buggy.

Carolyn

[AlaskaErik]

I take it this is a tongue-in-cheek article. Especially since the number of miles driven by the average American is climbing.