Refusing to Take the Path of Least Resistance

Olde Town Augusta

Augusta Public Transit Bus Station

15th Street and Broad

This is a picture of the Augusta Public Transit bus station on 15^th Street, near Olde Town Augusta. The bus system in Augusta is privately owned and it is not a very efficient system. It can take hours of riding the bus to get minutes down the road. Plus, the hours that the bus runs in Augusta are only from six in the morning to five in the afternoon so it is not very accessible either, especially for those of the lower class that work night jobs.

Part of living in a rough neighborhood, being born into a lower class and/or having very little privilege in our society includes not having easy access to transportation. Transportation in itself is a privilege. People that live in East Augusta that ride the bus are refusing to take the path of least resistance. There are lots of college students of the lower class that live in East Augusta that ride the bus to school everyday which takes up hours of their day. These are hours that they could be studying or working a job in order to pay their bills. These students are refusing to take the path of least resistance by riding the bus. If they took the path of least resistance, they wouldn’t even go to school or ride the bus anywhere. They would stay stuck in their class, with low privilege in East Augusta. Even people with jobs that ride the bus refuse to take the path of least resistance. The people on the bus are going places…no pun intended. The jobs that the people on the bus work, probably are very difficult to work, with factors such as sexist co-workers and/or bosses. Skip to “Sexism.”