First Interview
OVERVIEW
The first interview I conducted was with a friend of mine who has been taking the public transportation system all throughout high school and his first year of college. The Pronto app in San Diego does have a feature for individuals 18 and under; where this group can ride public transportation for free. I was aware that individuals above 18 had to pay a certain fee, but through my interviewee I learned the exact amount my interviewee pays weekly to board the trolley. From Monday to Friday, he pays 50 dollars weekly to board the orange line and green line to get to SDSU. This amount can even increase to about 60 to 70 dollars, when he has to commute to work or go anywhere in San Diego. Due to how much he pays now that he is above 18, he wishes for a lower reduced fare. The site Department of transportation & education describes ways to increase school attendance from students, and one of them includes reducing the fares.
RESONATED WITH ME
What resonated with me the most from this interview, are the groups of people my interviewee noticed the most on the trolley or public. I resonated with this because I have also noticed the same groups of people on the trolley or bus, showing how this form of transportation pertains to certain groups like students, low-income backgrounds, and elderly people. Another point that my interviewee made that I agreed with was to add more lines that travels throughout San Diego, because even though San Diego does offer hundreds of bus stops and the trolley lines, people do not have access to the more wealthier areas of San Diego in which people are more likely to own a car. The article Perks of using public transport describes perks of San Diego’s transportation and one of the perks was affordable city rides, and while it may be ‘affordable’ it takes time getting from one location to another.
HOW IT HELPS ME UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM BETTER
The first interview I conducted was with a friend of mine who has been taking the public transportation system all throughout high school and his first year of college. The Pronto app in San Diego does have a feature for individuals 18 and under; where this group can ride public transportation for free. I was aware that individuals above 18 had to pay a certain fee, but through my interviewee I learned the exact amount my interviewee pays weekly to board the trolley. From Monday to Friday, he pays 50 dollars weekly to board the orange line and green line to get to SDSU. This amount can even increase to about 60 to 70 dollars, when he has to commute to work or go anywhere in San Diego. Due to how much he pays now that he is above 18, he wishes for a lower reduced fare. The site Department of transportation & education describes ways to increase school attendance from students, and one of them includes reducing the fares.
What resonated with me the most from this interview, are the groups of people my interviewee noticed the most on the trolley or public. I resonated with this because I have also noticed the same groups of people on the trolley or bus, showing how this form of transportation pertains to certain groups like students, low-income backgrounds, and elderly people. Another point that my interviewee made that I agreed with was to add more lines that travels throughout San Diego, because even though San Diego does offer hundreds of bus stops and the trolley lines, people do not have access to the more wealthier areas of San Diego in which people are more likely to own a car. The article Perks of using public transport describes perks of San Diego’s transportation and one of the perks was affordable city rides, and while it may be ‘affordable’ it takes time getting from one location to another.
HOW IT HELPS ME UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM BETTER
My first interviewee’s response helps me understand the problem a little better, by providing personal experiences of what it has been like for him for the past five to six years of having a lifestyle built around the public transportation system. His experiences did support my formed opinion that the San Diego transportation system is unreliable for students because of far distances, and how students are not able to access every part of San Diego unless they own a car.
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