Take back the streets...

Car commuters, you know you're miserable! Leave the car and the concomittant rage and auto agony at home.

Washington area residents spend far longer getting to work and find themselves in daily traffic jams three times as often as commuters elsewhere, according to new local and national polls by The Washington Post.

Half of the region's commuters spend 30 minutes or more traveling to work, or an hour each day to get to their jobs and back home. Even when compared with commuters in other major urban areas, the surveys suggest that Washington residents spend significantly more time on the road.

Take to the buses and trains, and let's form a real constituency of Washingtonians demanding good public transport.