Public Transportation and Smart Growth

The last time I was in Los Angeles (other than the airport on the way to Asia), I met up with a transit advocate who took me on a walking tour and then put me on the bus back to my hotel, where I was attending a convention.

I was the only white person on the bus, but I did not sense any danger from the other passengers.

Still, the next day, a local attendee at the convention was horrified that I had ridden the bus, especially at night. It was "dangerous."

In the Minneapolis paper's online comment columns, whenever the question of transit comes up, someone always comes up with a statement about not wanting to ride the bus with "the diversity" or "the gang bangers and illegals." Sad to say, such comments often get a lot of "thumbs up."

The racism is the problem.