Public transportation is vital in any thriving and growing city that has a goal to create equality for all of it’s residents. Public transportation is the main means of transportation that people use to get to and from work or to gain access to certain public services. Majority of the time, the people who are using public transportation are low income people who don’t have the means to afford a car, insurance, gas, etc. It is important for a city to allow equal opportunity to it’s residents regardless of social status to be able to have access to things in and around the city. If a city fails to do this, it causes an even larger gap between the low and upper class people. Public transportation is mostly an issue discussed in public planning departments. I feel like the topic of public transportation and it’s weaknesses are not really focused on in other forms of media and that majority of people overlook the faults in the system.

An option for our group to do would be to re-plan the public transportation map in Pittsburgh, as well as implement a more technological advance in bus times and ways to pay. Another, less media way, to approach this topic is to also look at how affordable the bus system is for the people who use it everyday and how effective transfers are, etc. It is important to highlight the fact that sometimes a taking the bus to and from work can be a large portion of that person’s already probably limited paycheck. Forms of media that can be used, for example, would be indesign to re-plan the transit system. This could be possible with extending the T train that currently only operates downtown and to more affluent suburbs. The end goal, without cost being considered, would just to be able to create a more efficient and affordable transit system that allows people to easily get to and from work or other areas in the city.