Solution to congestion is public transportation

Re "With Traffic at a Crawl, Planners Talk of Tunnels," Sept. 18 Twenty-three-mile-long tunnels through the mountains in order to relieve traffic congestion at a cost of billions -- you're kidding, right? If ever there was an idea demonstrating the poverty of current thinking about our automobile obsession, this is it. It's time to remove fantasy from public policy debate about the design for our cities in the 21st century -- the notion that we can continue single-passenger, longdistance commutes from suburbs to job sites in the coming decades with falling supplies and rising prices for fossil fuels.