PROMPT: For post #5 I want you to investigate
transportation in your neighborhood. How do you get around? What
obstacles do you face? What kinds of transportation are available to you? Do
you ever use public transportation? Who does? Do you wish public
transportation was better in our area? How so? What good would it do?
Transportation. Around campus, I rely on my feet to take me
from place to place. The walk from my dorm to class is generally only a five or
so minute walk. I enjoy walking through campus: meeting friends on the way to
class, wandering through the rose gardens or just appreciating the beauty of
campus. For the University, walking is my chosen mode of transportation and
serves me well. There aren’t really any downsides to walking through the
campus: the way I see it, I get exercise while I enjoy the scenery on my way to
class.
On campus, walking is, in my opinion, the best way to get
around. Sure there are other ways, like biking and skateboarding, but they
aren’t really necessary, at least not for me. There is the option of driving,
of course, but there just isn’t a need to drive around the campus, not to
mention that most of the people I’ve met here don’t have their own cars. However,
if the need arises to travel off campus, walking is not a valid option for me.
As I’ve mentioned, my neighborhood, the area I feel comfortable in, stops
abruptly to the left of my dorm: the infamous Downtown Reno. Walking, while
sufficiently carries me around campus, has met its limitation.
Of course, there is always public transportation. Recently,
I’ve run into quite the conundrum with transportation in Reno: for my volunteer
work for the Honors Program, I need to get to a location in Reno.
Unfortunately, the only bus routes that will take me to my destination require
that I walk through Downtown in order to get the bus stop. This makes me wish
that Reno had a better system of public transportation. The benefits of a good
public transportation system are infinite: not only does it allow people to easily
travel through the town, but it’s a good way to help the environment by
reducing the amount of cars on the road and therefore reducing carbon dioxide
output.
Transportation at the University is really a matter of
preference. Whether you’re like me and enjoy walking the familiar paths, or
choose a method of biking or skateboarding to class, transportation on campus
is no problem. The only issue arises when transportation off campus becomes a
necessity. While there is a system of public transportation, it could be
greatly improved.
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