City Bus

Stacy Lee
4-15-08
COHI 175
Essay 1

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I typically wake up at 9:40 am, get picked up
by my neighbor who also has a class that starts at 11am, and carpool over
to school. We park at Regents Parking Lot and then from there walk to the
shuttle stop where a shuttle comes to pick us up every 10 minutes. After
getting onto the shuttle, I get off at the Warren shuttle stop, and from
there walk to Sixth College to attend class by 11am. I take this route
because it is the fastest way to get to class and I save gas money and
don't cause further air pollution. I changed the typical journey to school
this week. Instead of carpooling with my neighbor, I drove to University
Town Center mall, parked my car there and took the city bus to campus.
Then on campus I walked from the bus stop to class. I enjoyed this route
more because it allowed me to people watch. This is something that I
really enjoy doing and there is a greater diversity of people on the city
bus than on a regular school shuttle. Another plus is that I get to listen
to my ipod. Also, this is still environmentally friendly because public
transportation is a good way to save gas and prevent smog in the air. I
spend a little bit of my own gas on the drive to the mall, however I could
easily tweak that step in the route and even walk to the all, take the
bus, and walk on campus. Maybe I will consider that for the next time I
decide to use an alternate mode osf transportation to get to school.