Drivers must be part of the solution

This is in response to the Jan. 12 letter, “Wet or dry roads, it’s always gridlock” about the horrendous I-5 commute home the previous Wednesday. I, too, was stuck in a two-hour commute that afternoon. However, instead of witnessing road rage and frustration, I napped, read a magazine, returned some phone calls and chatted with the people around me. The letter asserted that “All we can do is sit and watch it get worse.”

Far from it! We can ride the bus, join a vanpool, form a carpool, telecommute or work variable shifts. We can live closer to where we work or go to school. We can become part of the solution, not part of the problem.

There simply isn’t enough land and money available to build enough roads for everyone to drive their SUVs 60 mph to work every morning at 8 and home again at 5 pm. Until we all realize that, the writer is correct: There is no end in sight.

Steven G. Haynes

Arlington