Sam Staley: Transit passengers face longer commutes than drivers

Some particularly hardcore environmentalists and a few city planners hope cars will go the way of dinosaurs. They believe we’ll run out of oil and be forced to find a new means of travel, preferably by foot, bike and train.

That would mean a return to the “good life” they say, where we live in apartments, or high-rise condos and walk or hop a train to work in downtown high-rise office buildings not far from home. In short, we’d revert to a 19th century life of low mobility.