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Jeff and I were watching the news as we do every morning, while waiting for Hari to come over and play, and they were showing videos of the packed transit system in Bogota. Apparently there had been riots because the buses are so crowded. This scene of people packing into buses and train is repeated all over the world. The most obvious reason seems to be that the population is concentrated in one area and work in another area there is no quick answer for this. An increase in the amount of buses or trains will just make the population areas grow. In some countries including the US telecommuting is being tried by some companies to relieve the commuting stress of their employees of course this only works with those that have what are considered white color jobs. It also seems that when politicians and such get involved by the time they decide to do anything their ideas are obsolete and again this is a worldwide problem. The only real solution seems to be work at home for the white color workers and moving manufacturing out of metropolitan areas. So far in America they tend to only offer this to the higher level employees another possibility is staggered work days or the four day work week and then moving recreational and shopping areas away from the work and residential areas. This might work but the problem here is it would require the transplanting of a good part of the urban population and we all know that’s not going to happen. So far the biggest mass transit problems down here appear to be in Bogota, at least that’s what the news shows down here. As you can tell by what I’ve said so far there doesn’t seem to be a quick fix for any of these problems and as long as money and politicians are involved it will take even longer for there to be a solution. OK now tomorrow is Saturday and there’s a soccer game on TV so John will be at the house as will Hari so he and I will be spending some quality time on the bed watching Nick JR. Sunday we’ll be celebrating Ruby’s sister Olga 50^th birthday so I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to post over the weekend so everybody have I great time Ciao.