Maryland commuters need reliable public transit

Columbia, along with countless other Maryland communities, was first envisioned when the car was king. Planners, engineers, and politicians all agreed that the city of the future revolved around the automobile, sprawl was common, and the highway offered the ultimate freedom. Today, we know that these priorities were misguided. Far from heralding an age of utopian prosperity, car-centric design has brought us bumper-to-bumper congestion, inequity in our transportation networks and made us a leader in per capita carbon emissions.