I can't see a problem with imposing fines on drivers who violate traffic safety laws. The speed limit is the speed limit. A red light means stop. These things haven't changed since people got their driver's licenses.

There are easily accessible programs to help aging drivers maintain their skills, or recognize when they need to give up their cars.

Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it.

Metro shows no signs of being able to make its trains run on time. This occurs during single-tracking and it occurs during normal rush hour service.

Some people make a separate argument about the red light cameras. They say it just changes the type of crash that's most likely to occur at an intersection.

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

SafeTrack - I keep saying this - is not going to fix Metro. It's a speeded up track work program, compressing three years of already planned work on the track bed into about a year.