This is Diana's Transit Story

Описание: Diana works at Boeing and uses Pierce Transit Rideshare to get to work. This is her story.

Transcript:
I like driving, and I think that stems from driving cross-country and doing stuff as a family. I'm also in control. I know what I'm capable of.

I know what my limitations and my capabilities are. Can't answer for everybody else out on the road, but I'm responsible. I get everybody to work safely, and I at least get them back to the park and ride.

From there, it's on them. I'm Diana from Puyallup, and this is my transit story. I started with Boeing in February of 2018.

The biggest thing for me is the gas savings and wear and tear on my car. I have a car that I just realized is going to be nine years old next month, and it doesn't even have 80,000 miles on it. I think people most appreciate the value in it, the savings of gas, wear and tear on your personal vehicle.

Our rideshare fares cover all gas maintenance on the vehicle, as well as insurance for the vehicle. Boeing is great because they provide a subsidy to their riders, which helps encourage them to then get involved with others at their local site and take advantage of that subsidy, which helps pay for their monthly rideshare fare. That cost savings in my household, that's about $45, $50 minimum each time I fill up, and that extra money is getting put in my vacation fund because next year my husband and I are going to Fiji for our 35th anniversary.

I have grown children. My son and his fiancé moved in a year ago December when their rent went up $400 a month, and then my daughter and my oldest grandson just moved in the end of February, so that extra money that I'm not spending for gas is very helpful to help with the family dynamics there. As a mom, that's what you do.

I'm from Long Beach, California. It's where I worked before I came up here to Washington. We didn't have van pools.

I don't care to drive too much, and also the gas savings and wear and tear on the car. The main reason I take the van is it saves me about 200 bucks a month. Safe ride to work, safe ride home.

She's a very efficient driver. She's safe and gets us from A to B. Dairy Queen on your birthday. We start so early, and I'm like, take a nap.

It's one of the benefits. Julio, the second. I mean, sometimes we're not even at the freeway and he's already asleep.

It's funny because he'll be talking to you, you'll be talking to him, and then all of a sudden you start talking to him, waiting for a response, and he's out. Like, man, I was talking to you. I'm taking five additional vehicles off the road by having those people in the van pool with me.

Any bit that we can do to help with the emissions that are out there, it's just doing my part, I guess. That and I like the camaraderie, although most of them sleep or aren't there on their phone, but it's okay. I know they're there, and I get them to work.