Personal Narrative: My Transit Assignment

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Transit Assignment When I first began the transit assignment challenge, I found it exactly that, a challenge. However, by the end of the week my views and opinions changed. I saw that I was very lucky in my transit taking experiences. Many other people who rely on transit face many more obstacles on a daily basis than I did during this challenge. The first day I took transit was the only day that I cheated. I got a ride home from my swing dance class that night. I chose to do this because I would have been taking the bus very late at night and this did not feel safe. This experience showed me the impacts that being forced to rely on transit can have on other areas of life. In this situation, neither option felt good to me. I felt that it was a choice between risking my personal safety by taking the bus at eleven o clock at night or if I hadn’t been able to secure a ride, skipping swing dance entirely. This means that without a ride I may have been forced to miss out on a social opportunity, doing something I enjoyed. These choices will also occur in …show more content…
When you are spending 45 minutes to an hour commuting it is a frustrating feeling. This is especially true when you know how much shorter the trip would be in a car. This stress is experienced by many transit users at 36 percent of full time workers who had a commute to work of 45 minutes of more reported feeling stressed every day as compared to 23 percent of workers whose commuting time was 15 minutes or less (Turcotte, 2010 pg.34). The other day that I experienced a lot of stress due to bus times was Sunday. Bus service on weekends is not regular and this makes it a challenge in terms of timing. Often there is a long wait for a bus as I experienced after work. It made me very grateful that I do not have to use transit every weekend. It also made me recognize the challenges faced by those who are relying on

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