Having Feelings About Transit

Having Feelings About TransitA recent research paper has found a link between the aforementioned feelings and interest in streetcar named desire and age. Dr. Michael Coghlan, of Cambridge University, the author of the study, believes that young people have feelings about transit systems based on the experiences they have with public transportation systems. What has stood out to him as most interesting in the paper is how the feelings of the younger generation are linked to feelings about a number of urban centers across the country. People in the United States, he says, have such strong feelings about their cities that they form their own opinions about the importance of publicly funded public transportation systems.Not all of the participants knew that Dr. Coghlan was a sociologist, so some individuals were concerned about what the relationship would mean for the study's findings. However, those who did know about the underlying research seemed to have no problem with the relationsh ip itself. 'It's not surprising that it was important to participants who are very much interested in transit,' said Dr. Coghlan. 'These are young people who have never lived in an urban area and do not have any contact with public transportation.'The researcher was able to obtain contact information from three volunteers that were willing to be interviewed about the feeling they had about their city. One of the participants, a 21-year-old woman from Central Massachusetts, said, 'It's just, like, every day. It's not really a city, but it's, like, every day.'Other interviewees in the study had strong feelings about their city, but were not so familiar with it. One interviewee, who lives in New Hampshire, said that her feelings of the value of a transit system had changed over time.'I'm thinking more about my emotions when I'm driving rather than just the emotions of people who live there,' she said. She also mentioned that she was drawn to study urban centers when she was a child. 'I t's the place that you had to be to go to school. I was always going there and being like, 'Why are you even there?' I'm just curious.'The study had also found that emotions do not appear to be affected by the age of the person who is feeling them. No matter how old the participant was the emotional expressions of love for a subway system was the same as it was for the participants who were younger. Thus, the research suggests that feelings about urban areas, transit systems, and the surrounding community still influence feelings for the programs themselves.In addition to this, the study suggests that the ideas of various cities, even if the city is only recently formed, can affect a person's life in one way or another. Many people who live in cities develop positive feelings about it, Dr. Coghlan points out. For example, residents of the New York City subway system often express their excitement about the cars on the trains and how safe they are. This, in turn, results in friends, family, and co-workers having positive feelings about the subway system.