The senate's 'conscience': the transportation world was transformed forever by late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. (Up Front).(Obituary)

They buried Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the senator from academia, with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery last week. They'll never bury his ideas. Not a chance.

If you drove to work this morning on a highway, or if you came to work on a subway, or if you ever walk down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., between the White House and the Capitol, you have Pat Moynihan to thank for making your journey a little more pleasant. And if you didn't have an auto accident this morning, you may have Pat Moynihan to thank for that, too.

"There are hundreds of millions of human beings in this country, they don't know it, but he made their lives better," fellow New York Sen. Charles Schumer said after the 76-year-old Moynihan died of complications from …