The United States of Stupidity; El Paso Texas Version

Monday El Paso enjoyed snowfall--more than usual. (Though unusual weather is becoming more common, as is consistent with climate change/anthropogenic global warming.)

There were many automobile accidents.

This could have been avoided---if El Paso had pubic transit----reliable and regular trains, trams, and buses.

However, El Paso does not have a good transit system. There are only slow, pokey buses which run irregularly. To travel from one side of the town to the other is a nightmare. One must make several transfers, and there are ridiculous waiting times. (The buses themselves are cheap, low quality buses, I might add, thinking of the cold----cold air rushes into the bus through the central doors which do not close tightly, leaving a large gap through which cold air rushes into at least half of the bus.....)

If El Paso had a metro and trams (streetcars), many drivers would have chosen to use public transport. I know. I've seen it before in Bratislava. Whenever it rained hard, people chose not to drive and used public transport. I see no reason to think that the residents of El Paso, Texas would behave differently---if they had a choice....

In fact the weather was not so cold, not so bad. There was not enough snow to prevent trains and trams from running----if El Paso had a real metro system.....

My mother tells me that she has seen zero progress in the more than fifty years that she has lived in this city. I believe her.

El Paso, Texas is a miserable, unpleasant place---but such misery is not necessary, not an inevitable law of nature. Its source is the stupidity and arrogance of the rulers.

GMOOH!