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Work at Home; Leave the Traffic to Others

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If we're going to get out of ever-mounting gridlock, we've got to do more work from home or at least from regional office centers. We are reaching the point where telework is becoming a necessity lest our transportation system collapse.

For more information, contact Chuck Wilsker, president of the Telework Coalition, at 202-266-0046, Ext. 101, or http://www.telcoa.org . He has information on how to set up a contract between employer and employee and which employers offer telework jobs. He also has a list of all the telework centers in our metropolitan area.

These centers offer an office environment that lets employees work near home.

Since we are so heavily computer-dependent in this metropolitan area, we ought to be able to work from our computers at home, even if just one day a week. Try it. Let me know what happens.

A Lesson From Germany . . .

Dear Dr. Gridlock:

I recommend that Virginia Department of Transportation officials make a trip to Europe and observe road signage there. The signs on the Autobahn are large and well lighted and give plenty of advance notice.

The Germans understand that poor signage causes accidents. Why can't we?

California also has excellent signage and should be emulated.

I have told VDOT of my concerns, and they only shrug.

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