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Hi, I was wondering what's the best wa to get from a college and back? What transportation is the best idea? My college is about 20 minutes from my home. I think I'll be going east from my home.
If you live with someone who drives, and they have to use the vehicle shortly before your first class starts and/or after it ends, you can ask them to take you to/from school. This would work better if they're going in that direction anyway. Or, not sure if you live in a city or small town, but if your place has one, you can use their accessible transportation service. The advantage to that is that they can pick you up and drop you off in front of where you live, and a lot of places (especially if they are made up of multiple buildings) have more than one point where the van/bus can drop off/pick up a person. Or, you can use the public transportation system (the bus) if where you live has that. Or a taxi.
Do you live in a city or small town? And is your college in the same city/town as your home?
I live in a small town, my college is east in a kind of big city. It's in Pasadena city.
yeah, access should work, so should the free transportation and your family and friends which should be a kind of sort of duty. I mean you're there daughter. Rehab will fund u for transportation if you ask for it. and I don't like to tell people to do this but I'll put it out there.
pasadena? You wouldn't be going to cal tech would you?
I'll be starting school in a few months and I'm a bit concerned about transportation costs. I've figured out that going to and from college is going to cost 160 dollars a month. (that doesn't include money for other places I may have to go such as a doctor's appt. or church etc..)
Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do about this?
Thanks!
the accessible transportation, sometimes called paratransit, is very affordable, although often utter crap as far as reliability. It's better than spending hundreds on cabs, but if you have a city bus option, or if you can make arrangements to car pool with someone going the same way as you, that would probably be much better than paratransit.
Yeah, I have thought of that ocean..great idea! Thanks! :)
We do have paratransit here but I wouldn't want to count on the reliability..ugh!
Some places are better than others, but they all seem to have problems. Either they'll find a way to deny you service on the pretence that you don't meet the requirements, or they'll show up late, gget you to your destination late, and a lot of times they just don't get the message through at all and they can take you to the wrong place completely. They'll usually get you to the right neighborhood, but it has happened where they've taken someone to the wrong address.
find other classmates going where you need to go or find ones that are broke, and offer them a little gas money to drive you. most will be glad to do it if they're going your way anyhow. always pay something, though. this takes away the resentment and keeps them happy to continue driving.
Yeah, all true true
That is one area where Twin Falls, Idaho currently falls a bit short. I say currently because the waythe city's growing we could very possibly have a real bus system within the next few years. And since I recently decided that whether I do end up moving or not (although I'm still hoping not), my first priority is going to be to finish the degree I started at CSI. And yes you read that right, the local community college is called CSI. I figure I'll change my major to something in English since it's always been my best subject. I'll talk with the campus and see what English programs they have and pick what's most interesting to me. Because it occurred to me some time back that although it's not the ONLY barrier I've been facing, my lack of a college degree might be part of what's keeping me from getting job interviews and by extension jobs. But on the subject of transportation the only real options here if having someone drive you isn't an option are the taxi service, which I don't use for ttimed appointments if I can help it, and what's called the Trans IV, the local paratransit. THe problem with that is that it also doubles as a school bus for elementary school kids, which means that if you happen to have classes at the wrong time of day you could end up missing your ride home, especially if the class ran even just a minute longer than the schedule said. That happened to me a few times. They even screwed up once and sent two drivers to take me to school. I was ust getting off the bus at college when my cell phone rang. It was the Trans IV dispatcher wondering why I wasn't outside my apartment. I had to tell her that one of her drivers had already picked me up. My guess is she wasn't paying attention when my driver radioed in to tell them I was on her bus.
bus. and parentransit. sound like tttwo possible ideas.
have you folks tried asking for transportation funds from rehab I think they do reader funds too, that is if you have a good counselor and I know there's an excellent one out in pasadina if you ever need one that is better.
anyhow, those funds would help but the bus system and access should help you out and the other ideas sounds fabulus too. I live in the dorms here so can't help you out at all with other ideas except the ones I knew about, as I walk everywhere on campus because I am here already and I am up in northern california now and the public transport happens to be nothing but excellent here, I had a couple of muni bus drivers even get off the bus and help too, and because my tuition is so damn expensive I get a free muni pass as long as I am a student here.
Hi I do not go to collage but if i did I would take dollar a ride.
Because I will not have to date for the bus or anything like that.
I was going to suggest the same thing as Jamesk.