Three Types Of Public Transportation

In order to gain empathy and a better level of understanding about how someone that I serve in my work may use public transportation to obtain resources within our community, I chose to visit a local hospital using the local bus system. I thought long and hard about where to go and what type of public transportation to use. I then researched the internet to find some local community resources. I also did some research about local transportation in my community.
In planning for my trip, three types of public transportation came to my mind, the local bus, Dial-A-Ride and Uber. Dial-A-Ride needed advanced notice so I decided not to go with this form of public transportation. Uber seemed like taking a shortcut of the possible journey. I decided …show more content…
At this point I completely had forgotten what details I needed to gather for my proof of my ride and I did not think about getting out my assignment print out. I figured I would take some pictures for proof of my ride. I took some selfies showing the bus behind me and some picture toward the front of the bus. I checked out the pictures after I took some. A few of the selfies that I took had the man behind me which I had not noticed while taking the pictures. It looked like he was watching me taking selfies and I felt bad. I could only imagine what he could have been thinking. Of course, it is possible that he could have just been looking that direction. I decided not to use those pictures as proof of my bus ride. The bus stopped at the first stop and the man exited the bus making several trips to move his bags. I asked the bus driver if she knew any more information about the man as far as where he goes since she sees him daily. She said he takes different busses and at night he sleeps in the library. She added that she has spoken with him and he is very smart. She said he “just chooses to live like that”. I wondered what life would be like to be homeless or to choose a life style in which one has no set home or shelter. I initially glamorized the idea of homelessness by thinking about how freeing it would be to live without so many or our rules and tedious routines. I though how wonderful it would be to have no bills and no responsibilities. Then I thought that this guy does not seem so free. He is still at the mercy of the bus drivers, the bus schedule, has to follow the rules, and I did not feel like this man was living the dream. He was being given a hard time and from what I was told about the other bus drivers this is not new for him. He must have been bound to his bags because he there were so many and they probably contained all of his belongings. He most likely could not travel far from his bags for