Blog stage 8

I just finished reading Angela's post on South Texas parents, advocates claim school districts withheld special ed. wow. This is really disturbing to hear there is not enough support for some minorities to be able to continue their education. I don't know what to say really. I myself have language barriers and I can totally relate to people who can't be heard just because they speak a different language. and it's really sad, we are all human, all equals we have to take care of our disable children and people in need. We should not even wait for others to tell us such a thing, let alone they have language barriers and we don't have translators as well so problem solved. I got really excited about this topic so probably I have tons of grammar and vocabulary issues but we need to make a change, as small as writing a comment with broken language.

Austin should extend metro system

In the last post I commented on how it is better for Austin's residents to expand the transit system. In this post I'm going to talk about a specific transportation system and "Why exactly does Austin's traffic suck so much?" The metro system is one of the greatest ways of transportation. Austin's metro system is divided into several parts such as MetroBus, MetroExpress, MetroRapid, MetroRail, Night Owls, E-Bus, University of Texas Shuttles, MetroAccess, RideShare, and Freight Rail. There are 82 bus routes and 364 buses in the Austin area. Although these numbers are pretty outstanding, you have to picture that Austin is the fastest growing of the 50 largest U.S. cities. The metro system is barely catching up to the population and city growth. There are apartment complexes added to the outskirts of Austin area in the past couple of years that still don't have connection to the network of bus or metro routes. Considering that a vast majority of the Austin population are students of colleges or universities, I can strongly suggest that if they had any option outside of owning or leasing a vehicle, they would take it. The convenience of having public transport to get them from their home to campus to work and back would knock out the necessity to pay extra for car, gas, insurance etc. Not to mention, that by reducing these number of young drivers on the roads would also prevent a lot of the horrible traffic and accidents. Imagine the number of lives that could saved by allowing ambulances to get to their destination in a timely manner and without the dangers of heavy traffic. The list goes on and on. To reiterate, the options for public transportation are numerous but the limitation comes from the lack of access to these routes and stations. How can anyone comfortably utilize this form of transportation when the closest station is miles of walking distance away from their starting point? A change needs to be made. Its up to all of us to come together and come up with a solution. Reach out to your community leaders!