While driving on this greyhound bus back up to the mountains of Vermont I have been thinking a lot about the benefits of public transportation and how it could benefit the world more specifically the US. One would think that more people would consider taking public transportation when you are driving into lets just say downtown Boston. While I was driving into Boston to catch my bus there was a huge traffic jam not with a bunch of buses or public transportation vans but single occupupied personal cars. Now on a side note everyone is driving directly into downtown Boston and many will be parking within a mile or 2 of eachother. So now thinking about public transportatin in mind if everyone choice to use the park & ride service that many places have;

1. the congestion on the highways would be dirasticay less.
2. The emissions would be drastically less
3. Everyone would still get to work on time and if it ran late everyone would be late meaning no one would be held accoutable.
4. Instead of enduring the stress of rush hour traffic people could enjoy the beginning of the day and relax before work.

Just an idea and alternative to the American way that so many people never consider.