Rail Commuting

Thumbs up to The Times and Doug Adrianson for promoting rail travel (“Commuting by Rail Is a Smooth Way to Go,” Jan. 18) and a big fat raspberry to Assemblyman Tom McClintock for not getting it.

I can’t abide idiots who blab about having to pry Angelenos out of our cars. Give us an alternative, like a good train system, and then hide and watch!

And yes, “if you build it (more freeways) they will come.” Witness the multilevel, multilane I-5 monstrosity that now begins past Anaheim. Any bets it won’t be obsolete in two years?

Now if only Amtrak would wake up and put a few nonstop express trains between Los Angeles and San Diego.

TOBI DRAGERT

Tarzana