Transit Stories: Chicago College Students
Sarita Cavazos Chicago, Illinois As a full-time college student, owning a personal vehicle has never been fiscally possible. I rely on public transportation to travel to school, work, and extra curriculars. I’m an out-of-state college student attending the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), my family is over a thousand miles away and I live […]
Transit Stories: Carolyn Fowler
Inglewood, California I’m an avid transit rider. Public transit saves me gas, time, and energy. I work as a government affairs advisor for the Los Angeles Unified School District Board District 1. Before the pandemic, I took the bus every day. I either caught the bus on my corner to get downtown or would take […]
Transit Stories: Carden Wyckoff
(She/Her) | Atlanta, GA Transit equity is an issue I work diligently on with many local advocacy organizations in the Atlanta area and MARTA (directly on their writers’ committee). It is essential to me because of my progressive disability. I started using a wheelchair in my early twenties. Traveling long distances got more and more […]
Transit Stories: Brian Colfer
Sterling Heights, Michigan Public transit needs to be improved dramatically here in southeast Michigan. Right now it is not reliable. I am completely blind. I’m going to be getting vocational services and want to work as a receptionist. But if I had a job now, they’d fire because I’d be late all the time. I […]
Transit Stories: Benjamin She
(He/Him)|Philadelphia, PA As a rider and advocate, I find transit in Philadelphia and using SEPTA to be liberating. First of all, the city, as a pre-war, very dense, and compact city, has an abundance of available transit through the subways, buses, and trolleys. It allows me to get to a bunch of different places for […]
Transit Stories: Anthony Medina
Transit is important because some people do not have cars and need the bus so they can get to places. I do not have a car, so I’m obligated to bike or bus. Most of the time the bus does get me to where I need to go, but there are often delays from traffic […]
