Originally Posted by antimony

I commute from Redmond to Seattle using public transit. Lately there has been a noticeable increase in the bus-riding population. Predictably, a lot of the time spent on the bus is spent b*tching about the high gas prices.

However I still notice a large population willing to make their way to work in their cars, alone (therefore without the benefit of being able to use the transit lanes) and stuck in high traffic. This is dumb, given the fact that the Seattle area has very decent pubic transit that can be made proper use of.

And this is supposed to be a Red State, so elsewhere in the US this is probably worse