Stanford Transportation Impacts on Memorial Day, May 25

Additional customer service impacts on Tuesday, May 26 between 11:30 am - 3:00 pm  and Wednesday, May 27 between 7:30 - 10:30 am for staff training. Calls regarding parking enforcement requests will still be responded to during this time. Even when our office is closed, you can still use the How-to Guides to:

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Public Transit Tales Winners Share Their Adventures

These stories will hopefully inspire more folks to check out public transportation during Sept's Bay Area Transit Month.
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KIM RATCLIFF

We asked On the Move readers to share their transit tales. From unexpectedly seeing your face plastered on the side of VTA buses to traveling the country by Amtrak, your stories didn’t disappoint. 
Congrats to winners Karen Ajluni, Abby Iuorio, Benny Phan, and Kasey Inglis.

Karen Ajluni
Director of Finance and Operations, Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies

I wrote to the VTA to let them know about my experience with an amazing and kind bus driver with a customer service attitude that went beyond. They thanked me and must have given him a commendation because a few weeks later, the driver asked me if I’d written the email. I told him I did and how very much I appreciated him. Fast forward a few years to COVID, and the VTA was doing a promotional marketing campaign. They asked me to be in the campaign, so my face was plastered all over the buses!

Abby Luorio
MS Environmental Engineering Student, Stanford CEE

I took the California Zephyr Amtrak train from California to Denver. The adventure took 32 hours and was a great way to see the American West while traveling with a low carbon footprint. I read, ate in the dining car, listened to music, and looked at the beautiful scenery of the Colorado River, which we followed for much of our journey, and, of course, slept. Some of my favorite memories were sharing a beer with people I met and hearing about their lives and watching the sunset from the observation car. It was a great way to spend two days. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Benny Pan
26' Computer Science, Transportation Intern, Stanford Summer Fellows Program

When I landed a summer internship with Stanford Transportation, I couldn't believe it. Growing up in my native New York City, riding the subway and other public transportation terrified me. Then my family moved to the midwest, where transit options are few and far between, and everyone almost always drives. My childhood fear always lingered in my mind so I was wary the first time I planned to ride Caltrain to go out and eat with fellow Stanford students. But, I quickly realized taking transit in the Bay Area is completely fine. Maybe it’s because I’m okay with talking to strangers now and can now read maps and schedules. Who knows? This summer, I rode the Marguerite and Caltrain from the Stanford campus to SRWC daily. I find it funny that I interned at a department that manages the mechanisms of something I once considered the boogeyman, which I now use almost every day. Public transit is such an underappreciated mode of transport.

Kasey Inglis
Sustainable Commute Programs Lead,
Stanford Transportation

I consider myself a black diamond-level expert. But one recent morning, while riding Caltrain from my home in S.F. to SRWC, I was studying my Duo Lingo Spanish lessons in preparation for a trip to Guatemala. I was so engrossed that when I finally looked up, the surroundings whizzing by out my window looked totally unfamiliar. I was almost at the Stanford campus when I realized I’d missed my stop. As they say, No hay problema. I hopped off and caught the next northbound train for SRWC.

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