Save Gasoline -- Ride A Bus

December 05, 1990|The Morning Call

To the Editor:

I write in appreciation.

Recently I rode the bus from Allentown to Northampton. Among the minimum wage advertisements and the advisories to the welfare bound, I found a poetic ray of hope entitled "Dream of Days Like This" by Kate Potter. With the poem was a drawing, by Taryn Hoffman.

This cultural poster is part of the Poetry & Art in Transit series sponsored by Lehigh Valley Artists Inc., Open Space Gallery and LANTA. All are to be commended and supported.

Anyone who improves our mass transit is in touch with our future. Although our President does not make a big issue of it for fear of panic buying, you will hear his voice on Department of Energy radio announcements encouraging the conservation of petroleum.

Our short term and long term future are tightly intertwined with our use of gasoline. If we could all take the bus or car pool at least once a week it would virtually eliminate our need for the pre-Kuwait crisis levels of imported oil from Iraq. Steven Schmitt Allentown