Public Transportation and Smart Growth

People love the internet. It brings them LOLcats and porn, it allows them to shop without getting dressed, it allows them to connect nationwide with people who share their political derangements, it allows them to kill time when they should be working (*ahem*).

People -- most people -- don't love public transit. They appreciate it, abstractly. But their day-to-day experience of it is not the fun of viral videos, but the grind of the daily commute. Hell, I genuinely do love public transportation -- a tough thing to do in Washington, DC, where it's embarrassingly bad -- and even I have a visceral negative reaction to it when I'm on it.