Being stuck in traffic has got to be one of the biggest wastes of resources (human capital, time, machinery – cars, fossil fuel, mental energy, etc). I’ve been taking the bus to work for four months now. It’s a lengthy commute, longer than anything I’ve ever done on a daily basis. I drove 2 and a half hours each way once a week for a job where I stayed on site Monday through Friday, but this is every day and it’s just shy of an hour on the bus (with one transfer). In the grand scheme, it’s not that bad, not only do I not have to drive, I get to read or write these reflective posts.
Anyway, point of this one is that the bus gets to whizz by the cars that appear to be standing still on the highway as it merges onto the carpool/HOV lane. I feel superior to those stuck in traffic, waiting for the bottleneck to clear. As the HOV lane soars above the masses, I watch from above, all the single drivers in their cars, burning gasoline, yet going nowhere.
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