What was that slogan, "Big City Amenities"? Why does it feel like we have Big City Transportation Problems with thinking-small non-solutions? We keep counting beans and then complain about unemployment!

Try taking the SCAT bus in Sarasota! To begin with, you walk two blocks on both ends of your trip. You wait forever. You get caught in a downpour somewhere along the line and this is not to even mention the possibility of some "voluntarily homeless" person who hasn't bothered to bathe or put on clean clothes coming aboard with all that implies.

I will leave the "voluntarily homeless" to another article.

What if there was a shelter at every bus (or train!) stop? What if you could get a Neighborhood Shuttle ride to or from that shelter or to or from anywhere in the neighborhood? Why, you wouldn't even need a car - you certainly wouldn't need two cars!

Folks, these are electric, they cost practically nothing to run and carry eight passengers. Let's say we had five of them working your neighborhood, and all neighborhoods at peak times, and some of them all the time the bus/trains are running. How many jobs would that provide - and think of the service!

No more walking to the bus stop. No more driving to the grocery or the beauty/barber shop. For a bus fare you get a ride to any local destination, for the fare plus the cost of the transfer you can continue on the bus or train, and with another transfer you can ride the shuttle at the other end! Wouldn't that be wonderful?

This really would be Morning in Sarasota!