In "We're Driving Ourselves to a Lousy Quality of Life in Our Smog-Maker Cars," (California Commentary, Dec. 4), Judy Wright advocates greater use of buses to cut pollution and speed traffic flow.
It is difficult to imagine how buses could be better for the environment when they all seem to belch far more soot per passenger than most cars. Likewise, it is hard to see how buses could decongest our highways and byways. More often than not, what's causing a jam is a big, clumsy, lane-straddling bus that's incapable of attaining reasonable speed or even clearing an intersection.
