The other day, I was driving down the road, studiously avoiding public transport and when I stopped at a red light (very unlike some of said public transport), there was a bus standing beside me. I’m not normally shocked by the sight of dilapidation, in fact, I quite like a spot of squalor every now and again, but this!!! was something else. There was recently talk of making everyone get their old cars tested for roadworthiness, so I wondered how this sad excuse for a bus would have fared.

Here’s my question: Can we really not do better than this?? Let’s wash the twin towers just every second time, let’s plant shrubs instead flowers along the roads, let’s charge ten cent more for every highway (if we must) and let’s use the money to change the public transport system from a disintegrating one to one that you might actually want to use even though you have the money for a motorbike (or even a car).