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"Sound, sound, sound, went the trolley ... ding, ding, ding went the bell ..."

The words of the old familiar song bring back memories to me, during the war in 1940 in Yonkers, NY - known by its natives in those days as "a city of gracious living." This city, more hilly as the "City by the Bay," boasted streetcars until the early 50s, when their bus was held. These were the "good old days", despite the ravages of war, the blackouts, the rationing of sugar and petrol, andthe black-favorites telegrams sometimes I helped my brother, who died to deliver by bicycle to the fallen GI's kin.

Those were the days of soft music, good movies, fresh-from-the-farm food - unadulterated by crossing (tomatoes), whipped cream (butter), decaffeination and freeze-drying (coffee), rolling (Turkey), injection of water (ham) and the treatment of chemical additives (bread) - and for most of us that we were only experiencing high when the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Yankees or the Giants managedto the World Series.

But back to the car! Many of us, with the iron monsters they look now grown not only nostalgic, as we do, but also as an excellent form of transport. In summer, the cars were often aired openly, operated on a full, easy to plan and took it almost anywhere you wanted to go into the city from the subway in the Bronx to the city lines of Hastings-on-Hudson and Mount Vernon .

And they were funny, as children we often rode it all overCity if it does not do much else. It kept us out of trouble more than once.

We think the car quite a lot these days - just about every time we sit patiently behind another car on Route 7, the Parkway or the turnpike. And more often lately, many of the side streets in the province. Here, in the hour, it's an adventure trying to train in and out of the driveway.

In fact, we were preaching the benefits of public transport for years, but not onlyBuses. Logically, one should specify the transport to the goal or destination, desired fit. A train or plane fits the bill for most long trips, private cars, limousines, taxis, buses, bicycles, suspended or even golf carts do the trick in other situations.

With today's limited-access "parking areas (the Merritt, I-95)," it has not become clear, the car is not the panacea it once was? In the face of the daily traffic is stagnating, you can really see the naked king rollTurnpike every morning without looking that he has no clothes?

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