I love Steven Pearlstein's columns. He always seems to have an intelligent, outside-the-box take on things.

One of the problems right now is that there are so few immediate passenger destinations right along the Potomac. But with a few new bus routes I could see the river as a great alternative to the GW Parkway or Canal Road for commuters, either to Rosslyn or the Mall area, both from the north and from the south. And what about a ferry terminal at National Airport?