FIRST EXPERIENCE * USA - Start 'em young
Tacoma,WA,USA -Bus pass it along/Transportation Task Force, by Garrett -September 29, 2008: -- As with most human behavior, people's comfort level with riding the bus seems to depend on prior experience and habit. If riding the bus is a natural thing for you, the sometimes odd but nearly always harmless behavior of some of your fellow passengers rarely fazes you. For this reason, I've gone out of my way to introduce my young son to the bus. We ride fairly frequently to places around town here in Olympia, most often (but not always) if his mother is using the car. For example, a few weeks ago we were headed out one weekend to our local Children's Museum, a favorite haunt, and I decided it'd be a good day to take the bus downtown. We caught our bus a few blocks from home without incident (the woman sitting at the curb near our stop complaining about how the last driver had refused to let her on without paying notwithstanding) and made a smooth connection at the transit center.... about a 20 min ride altogether... At the end of the day, we had a great trip to the museum and he's getting used to the idea that riding the bus makes sense, even in a city made for cars. I imagine by the time he's my age, that may change (gas prices, global warming, all point to more dense living where transit makes sense)...
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