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Work at Home; Leave the Traffic to Others

. . . And Romania

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Dear Dr. Gridlock:

I recently moved from Arlington to Bucharest, Romania. While many people here will correctly tell you traffic is terrible, the subway system is terrific.

After years of riding the crowded Orange Line, where you can barely get in the door because everyone crowds around it, I love the fact that here the benches run along the sides of the subway cars, that there are straps for short people like me to hang on to and the cars are open at each end so you can move to the next car if yours gets too crowded.

What a relief after the Washington area Metro system! I wish this could be emulated back home.

Kathy Kavalec

Bucharest

Not that long ago, Romania was a backward, Stalinist society. That the subway system there is better than ours is a sad commentary.

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