charleston, so. carolina through which i drive twice a day down and back up interstate 26 has been named in some national study, i suppose, as one of the most traffic burdened municipalities in the entire country for its size... what is terrible is that the average person in the greater charleston area supposedly spends at least 22 hours in his or her car in traffic delays... i happened to think that i spend approximately 520 hours a year in my commute to and from work...
now, no matter how one looks at that number of hours, that is a LOT of time to be in a car in nearly bumper to bumper traffic at least for a portion of those hours...
therefore, i would like to suggest that it is past time that the government authorities, i.e. the department of transportation and the mayors of the surrounding cities, develop a rapid transit system for the tri-county area that includes berkeley, charleston, and dorchester...
i know that there are others out there in the greater charleston area who feel the same...
it is time... we need an elevated, rapid transit train with a park and ride system throughout our counties...
without this rapid transit system, charleston will soon come to a complete standstill during "rush hours" and beyond them, according to this national study...
surely, we can make our voices heard, and get this problem fixed...
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I'm just seeing where the "Next Blog" button on the NavBar takes me. This is stop 4 of 10.
i'm interested that you live near charleston, because that is my ideal city in which to live, and someday i hope to live there. i've been to charleston 3 times in the past 4 months, camping on edisto beach and in given's ferry. the area is so intensely beautiful and the history is so very interesting.
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