I've new respect...

[stevebody]

As Bucko will undoubtedly attest, traffic up here in Sea-patch and Ta-Coma is bewilderingly awful. At very least, in NYC environs, they've built roads that were designed to carry vast numbers of vehicles. Here, we have virtual cart-paths that look like parking lots. I just drove back from Woodinville through Redmond at 4:30 on a Friday and was desperately trying to remember the downside of road rage. One of the most maddening things is I-5 through Tacoma, around the mall and the T-Dome, which routinely becomes a used car lot for long periods of the day. For those of you not blessed with first-hand knowledge of Tacoma, it isn't exactly Metropolis. Where all the cars come from is one of those knotty mysteries of NW life that were only hinted at in "Twin Peaks". Give me NYC and some good, old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon invective shouted out car windows anyday...