Monthly Archives: January 2016
Cheap and Easy Parking Causes Increased Driving
The bus back from Orono was standing room only Wednesday afternoon, a sure sign that public transportation in the Bangor area is working and ought to be expanded. The route could easily support more frequent buses that run later into the evening. The bus was full because the University of Maine charges for a limited […]
Letting Go of Your Teenage Driver
One from the vault: February 11, 2004 Winter is the season for tragic death on Maine’s weather-slicked highways. The engine of commerce must go on, and we live in an economy that depends on people being able to get to their jobs by automobile, no matter what the weather. Schools have the good sense to […]
Are Cars Exacerbating Americans’ Anger?
Once or twice a year, I travel from my home in Bangor, Maine to Danbury, Connecticut. I teach in the low-residency MFA writing program at Western Connecticut State University, which convenes in January and August. Getting there, for one who does not own a car, requires some thinking. Last year we combined the trip with […]