It was a nice morning so I rode my moped to the Middletown North light rail station. After I locked my moped in a bike locker, I stood on the platform looking at the people waiting for the northbound train. I have to be honest and say that while I was please to see so many people taking the northbound train to Glasgow and Newark business parks – I was glad to be going south.
But even the soutbound was a bit more crowded than ususal so I stood for the 15 minutes until a seat opened up at the Townsend Park & Ride Stop. When the train pulled into Clayton it really filled up with people heading down to Dover and I just squeezed out as the door closing chime sounded.
I walked the rest of the five blocks to work. During that walk I just thanked God that Al Gore beat that nit wit oil man George Bush in 2000 and decided to invest our peace dividend in renewable energy and public transportation. Even the wingnuts I work with agree that the quality of life around here has improved over the last 8 years.