Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, September 14, 2008


At best text messaging causes young people to write stupidly. At its worst it causes accidents. Despite the controversy over what caused the Metrolink catastrophe texting seems altogether too plausible. One minute after pressing send a person may still be preoccupied with texting, and in piloting a train one minute is surely too little time to recover from that.

It also emerges that one reason for the single-trackage on that line is it goes through a tunnel. Why not drill a second tunnel?

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