This is a bit rambling, sorry. I am not sure if any other Tunbridge people are reading this, but I thought I would make some comments based on recent experiences. At the showing I made a comment about public transport, and the reaction seemed to be either "carpooling" or "move to S. Royalton." Anyways.... I have been going on about public transportation for years. With two teens at home in recent years, it was awful how much driving we did. When they were young and we first moved back, we were two working parents with 1 car. I think that there is just this attitude it is not possible here, but I don't believe it, and I do think that even with increasing gas prices, in the short term (10 years?) it would allow us to travel a little more than maybe if we just had our cars. My recent experience has been that I am currently without my car (repairs), and the other car is being used by my daughter for an internship in the town where I work. So she picks me up after work, and that is how I get home. TO work, I am getting a ride (carpooling...) to a park and ride on 91 (I am being intentionally vague as I believe these posts are public?), and taking the bus to within 5 walking minutes of my job. On the second day, the bus was overfull. People are taking advantage of what we have, and there isn't enough capacity. There is now going to be some kind of priority system for the bus, and they are not taking new riders. By the way, the college and the hospital fund this service for their employees -- parking is the issue there. I have seen public transportation work. I have lived both in a city and in a rural area in Europe with no car and got around fine. When we were living in the suburbia of Long Island, my father NEVER drove into the city, always took the train. Often he walked the 1 mile to the train station to avoid the parking hassle, driving in bad weather. When we lived here in the 70s, he still worked in New York, and for awhile was able to pick up the bus in South Royalton, using public transportation to get all the way to my grandfather's apartment in Brooklyn. I see that Vermont Transit just cut the stop in Randolph -- the South Royalton stop hasn't existed for many years. I am not talking about a bus going up and down the back roads of town, but an extension of what is already here. Could the 89'er stop in South Royalton? Could the Brown Line of Advance Transit go out a little further than Dan and Whits? Will there be more demand, and the money to fund the upfront costs of an extention to these routes? We don't have a culture of it here, but I don't think it is a symptom of beinng a rural area.