Emphasizing that life is full of choices, Duncan announced during TBARTA’s June meeting that he’d never truly realized how many transportation choices there were until he went hunting for a toilet seat at Home Depot. “There are wood toilet seats, there are plastic toilet seats, they’re pink, they’re blue, they’re green, they’re white, they’re beige, there are some that talk to you, some that sing to you… I thought to myself, one of the basic things in life, you actually have options. And then it dawned on me. Perhaps one of the most basic elements in life — that is, getting around to our jobs and our work and our schools — we have few options in transportation.”
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.