"The few wheel chair confined people that I have met drive cars."

Somehow that doesn't surprise me one bit, Jim.

Here's the thing- for people who are so immobile that they can't drive, or who aren't wealthy enough to be able to care for and maintain a car, or have poor vision (which often comes with old age), or who just don't like having to drive, TRANSIT IS THEIR ONLY OPTION.

Also, many of the wheelchairs that people use today are so heavy and difficult to fold that if they are taking a car ride to get to where they need to go, it almost certainly means that those people are "dependent" upon others for the transportation. My point: Implying that everyone with a handicap would be able to drive free in a camaro if we just stopped spending money on light rail and transit is nothing more than wishful thinking, and purposefully misleading wishful thinking at that.

One of the things that I did as part of this great experiential learning outing was TO WEAR GOGGLES THAT MADE ME HAVE THE VISION EQUIVALENT OF BEING LEGALLY BLIND. Obviously, cars aren't an option for them - transit is the ONLY option.

Also, Jim, exploiting the handicapped and the poor as rhetorical devices to defend your personal driving fetish is worthy of a head shaking.