I have to commend letter writer Eric Mathiasen for “Elderly transit” (Voice of the people, July 23). Mathiasen’s letter advocating public transportation to relieve drivers old and young from the responsibility of driving on America’s dangerously congested streets and highways was the most sensible idea I have read to date concerning our aging population and the worry of carnage involving old and young alike. These people have to drive modern-day, high-powered vehicles because there is no public transportation for them to do otherwise.
Until the day public transportation arrives in our cities and suburbs, the traffic congestion and carnage on our streets and roads will continue. It’s not a matter of age or youth; it’s a matter of there being no public transportation.
The depriving of a driver’s license to the aged or the young, while public officials know there is no access to public transportation, would be a travesty of justice that isn’t the American way of solving a problem.
