Mass Transit

Occasionally my friends ask me where I get my ideas for these columns; I usually respond, “It’s whatever happens to interest me that particular week”. When I woke up last Friday, I realized that I lacked a topic. Then I sat down for breakfast and opened the morning Post Gazette on my laptop. I was immediately accosted with the headline, “TRANSIT TROUBLES, Facing a funding crisis, PRT may eliminate 41 of its 100 routes”. Now, there’s a topic that interests me! Once I got into the article, it was obvious that this was indeed an appropriate subject. According to PRT (Pittsburgh Regional Transit)…