Day 2: Catching The Wave

By Tiffany Craig Investigative Reporter
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On Day 2 of our series, I'm catching the Wave! Find your bus route and try it too! Day 2: Catching The Wave
Published: Mon, July 07, 2008 - 4:55 pm Last Updated: Mon, July 07, 2008 - 8:18 pm
Tiffany Craig
Tiffany Craig
News 5 is taking a new approach to tackling pain at the pump!

Day # 1 was carpooling... or more like mooching a ride.

Monday would start the first full week of no gas and its time to test the Wave transit system.

Photojournalist Arnell Hamilton and I walked almost two miles to the pick up point at Providence Hospital.

We have $1.25 each and no time to spare. The Wave travels all over Mobile. We were headed into work on Route 1.

Day 2 two of Putting It In Park... catching the bus.

Paula Dicks works for the Wave and says usage is up but there's still plenty of room. "Now that gas is so expensive, people are sort of saying this is a reasonable alternative to what I'm doing. We want to encourage that of course."

We found the bus clean, well air-conditioned and simple to use.

Paula suggests going to the Wave website to get started. Click Here to find routes, times and prices!

We made it to the Bel Air Boulevard stop in about half an hour.

On Tuesday, we'll try out the neighborhood service so we won't have to walk to the main bus stop. Click Here to see how to do it!

We still have 17 more days of Putting It In Park.



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i would contact boeing and get me some of those balloons, a lawn chair and a six pack of coca cola. maybe attach a line with some more balloons and lawn chairs and call it the new wave.

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Way to go TIFFANY! IT’s sort of like being on PARRIS ISLAND for 13 weeks, You do things that you never thought you could do. I’ll get easier the longer you do it, sort of like getting street smart. I know you don’t know me but I’m proud of you girl. This is some of the ways it was done a long time ago. You need that bicycle now with one of those little bicycle trailers behind it as i have behind mine to do your after work food shopping or on the week ends with, but I wouldn’t recommend getting on a major road with it. Still to dangerous with most every one flying around in a hurry.

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Tiffany you are a brave person to take on this (no gas) assignmet. I couldn’t do this if I wanted to(I clean homes all over the south Baldwin county area.  But you need to expand on your No Gas assignment.  You need to relize that the average person has to go to the store during the week for one thing or another.  Also, if you are the average single mother or married and have children in day care or school think about if one of the children gets sick and you have to go and pick them up. How are you gonna be able to do this with no car.  Get real and live and do as the average person or family would have to live in this crisis of gas prices.  Do this and you will see how HARD it is to make ends meet.  I see that you are only gonna use different ways for you to get to and from work.  Lets see you try and do the normal everyday things in this assignment.
Foley Grandma

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