Transit Stories: Chris Chavez
Long Beach, California I was born and raised in Long Beach. Like many children here, I had asthma because the air is so polluted. On many indicators of poor air quality, we’re at the top among cities across the country. Asthma is assumed to be something that just happens, but like other respiratory conditions it’s […]
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 […]
