Any citizen who lives within or drives near a municipality of any size is well aware that compared to the daily commute root canal is a pleasant diversion. In a culture that prizes the freedom of the personal automobile over nearly all else, it is somewhat mystifying that almost universally the needed infrastructure to handle those millions of vehicles has not been anticipated and the existing capacity not sufficiently maintained.
Enter Kuwait, with all the solution that could possibly be needed.
A recently passed measure limits drivers licenses for foreigners to those who are university graduates and draw a monthly salary of not less than $1,370. Let's take that criteria and apply it to US highways and byways. Rather than make it applicable solely to foreigners though, lets make that the gold standard for anyone to drive. Heck, I'm even willing to grant illegals with a university degree drawing the minimal salary to drive. At least until the deportation hearing is complete and they have been properly expelled from the country - but that is another rant.
The roads would be ours again! No longer would a forty-five minute drive require two hours or more to complete. Millions of gallons of gasoline would not be burnt each year by idling vehicles mired in stop and stop longer traffic. Potholes could be repaired and highway budgets dramatically slashed.
Sure it's a fantasy - but nothing worthwhile ever got started without an unrealistic dream.
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