These days, newspapers, blogs and forums have said the scandal of private travel by car to the service of a prime minister of an Italian region. Travels with a wealth that has documented the incredible ( I've reported here ). But I do not care here entering into the specifics of the person involved (for those who just can not resist, read this brief advice from the site www.ilpost.it ), who evidently wanted to make it out politically.
I propose, instead, an example of the quite contrary, through a video that takes the Mayor of Seattle, Washington, who goes to work by bicycle. And not a single day during the election campaign ...

You're seeing that maybe it makes us more aware of mobility problems that are there for your fellow citizens? You are about to see that you create a system where there is a second class citizen in a hurry and can have a car and driver always available and a second class whose work is not that important. It does not matter if you arrive late, if he wakes up at dawn to find no traffic ... no time for him so that important. The weather, the rush, the work of the politician is ....

Perhaps for this policy is often far from people's needs. Why politician gets used to a fast track of everything. And people, when they realize it does not even desire, time, forces to be indignant ... ..