Why I'm riding the bus...

For Lent this year I've decided to start taking the bus to school! It started to bother me that when I'm at Metro Carering I pass out bus tokens to every client but had never taken the bus myself. SO, yesterday morning I took the bus for the first time! David helped me find the right bus stop and I left my house at 7:45 to be at Iliff by 9:00. It cost $1.75 each way and I had to transfer buses but it was a good learning experience. Having a car is a privilege I take for granted. Relying on public transportation adds HOURS of travel to the daily lives of people in poverty...trying to get to work, to the grocery store, to a doctor's appointment, etc. A commute that takes me 20 minutes by car took me an hour by bus! I know in other major cities public transportation is part of life, but here in Denver it definitely seems like a class issue...