All Entries / Eduardo and His Family Are Grateful For Public Transit
Hello, my name is Eduardo Guerra. I am Cuban and am fifteen years old. I came to United States with my mother and grandmother on July, 2008. Since this date I have lived near to Vizcaya Metrorail Station, from which I take the Metro to Coral Gables Senior High School, where I am matriculated.
As the classes were about to begin on August, my mother and I used to walk to Vizcaya station, take a Metro, get down at Douglas Road station and catch a trolley to my school. That way, when the school year started, I knew perfectly the way to arrive to my school using the public transportation service.
Up to now, my mother, my grandmother and I daily use this service to move within Miami Dade. I go to my school, my mother goes to her work in Miami Airport and my grandmother goes to her different medical appointments in Jackson Hospital and Rafael Penalver Clinic. We recharge our Easy Card monthly and my grandmother uses her Golden Metropass.
To tell you the truth, at first we are very confused and we took the bus the wrong way a couple of times, because we could not understand how the same number bus could be boarded on one address and the other, in the opposite direction. Also, the bus left us sometimes in the bus stop; we would not know if we needed to extend our hand to signal the bus to stop. We felt bad at first, but later we laughed.
Now, when we need to go to a specific place, my mother calls Miami Dade Transit Information and Customer Service at 305-770-3131, and they let us know how to reach using the Metrorail and buses, and their corresponding time of arrival.
My mother said that the better thing here in Miami is “Its public transportation service” due to its accuracy and organization, which has allowed us to advance in this country without having a car, and for this reason we, will never live far away of a Metrorail station.
