Oklahoma City has a very limited amount of public transportation. It sprawls over 621 square miles of land
area. If you don't have a car, it is almost impossible to
get to work. People don't car pool any more like we did
in the fifties when a 2 car family was unusual. The cost
of a commute is growing and the wear and tear on our street
system is unbelievable.

I don't know how other cities that don't have good public
transportation manage. Teal is so right about NYC. On
my visits to New York City, we braved the Subway system and
managed fine but it was in a less violent era. We also took
the Tube in London and it and the railway got us anywhere
we wanted to go. I long for us to have something similar.

Some of the side effects of this problem are obesity, the
difficulty of getting police and firemen to the site of an
emergency,overstretched infrastructure and an inefficient
Public transportation that is vital to a small number of people.

These problems have to be solved and it will take better
minds than mine but how hard would it be to start car
pooling again? Less gasoline and oil and less traffic and
less cost to the consumer would certainly be an incentive.