Getting on the bus.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

Partly because I was fascinated by trains as a child and, more rationally, because, for many years, trains were obviously environmentally preferable to buses, I have long had a pro-rail, anti-bus bias. Now, however, we have buses running on natural gas, and metropolitan areas that have sprawled in a way that often makes rail an impractical...