• Commentary

    Getting from Here to There: It’s more than transportation – It’s about the common good, or bad!

    Three recent events – so different – that I hesitate to group them – caused me to think about something we often times take for granted and don’t think about how it links us all together – for good or for ill – transportation and specifically public transportation. The three dissimilar and non-equivalent events –  – the fatal tragic accident on Metro-North outside of NYC; the 15 minute lateness of a personal trainer for her session at the gym and my moving only a few miles from behind Columbia University to in front of Grand Central. The commuter train accident:  Lives were lost in an instant in a tragic accident. …