Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Team A / Blogging vol.3 / Yosuke / About Riverside

I live in International Village of UC Riverside for 45 days. I'll try to describe strong point and weak point of Riverside from the view of resident according to my daily life.

First, it's strong point that we can concentrate to study English because there are good facilities and environments of UC Riverside Extension. We can use extremely useful facilities, such as Extension Center and Lab. rooms etc. In addition, there are few activities outside of UC Riverside, so we can concentrate to study. If we were in Los Angeles or Irvine, we couldn't concentrate to study because there are so many interesting activities outside of the college, such as shopping mall, bar, club, etc.

Second, it's weak point that the transportation systems of Riverside are tremendously poor. It takes approx. 25 minutes to get to the nearest supermarket on foot. We cannot survive without cars. Furthermore, it is too difficult to get to Los Angeles without a car. If we visit Los Angeles by public transportation, it takes more than 2 hours per one-way. Everybody says it's terrible, and I also think so.

In conclusion, I would like to strongly request to Riverside City and/or California state legislature to improve said transportation systems. If these problems were resolved, Riverside would be much better than present in various aspects, such as culture, industry, etc. Moreover, “Modal shift”, which is worldwide trend of changing of transportation methods from car/airplane to train/ship in order to reduce the total amount of exhaust gas, is one of the most important keyword to resolve global warming problems. Therefore, Riverside and/or California state legislature should change their mind and take necessary actions as soon as possible.

5 comments:

  1. I thought, in the Riverside transportation system is really sucks. If I ask a question to any Riverside citizen, nobody doesn't agree with that. The question is "Does anybody think the Riverside transportation system is good or sucks?". Nobody doesn't agree with that. I hope
    to change the transportation system getting better.

    -Sean

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  2. "There are few activities outside of UC Riverside, so we can concentrate to study. If we were in Los Angeles or Irvine, we couldn't concentrate to study because there are so many interesting activities outside of the college, such as shopping mall, bar, club, etc." I really agree with you!!!!!Riverside is a good place to study, but Los Angeles is a good place to live and play!~

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  3. I could not agree more. I am going to live here 4 or 5 years, so I have to get used to and have to buy a car. I do not belive the transportation system will change. If every people accept this situation and find the solution is buying a car, the government never take care of the problem and they may say people can live without transportation system. I mean people cause this problem. They say ok and buy a car just as I have to do in the future.

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  4. HaHa~ Yosuke~ this story is very good ^^
    I agree with your opinion in many part, but some part can't agree with you. In your opinion, Riverside is very good place for studying English because there are no any place to play. But, I think that it is also not good for studying. Becuase we can study just infront of desk but cannot move to activity for using English. It is just my opinion. Becuase my learning style is ativity learning style. ^^

    - Brian Lim

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  5. the problem is everybody have a car. Because everyone has a car, the city don't have to invest in the public transportation! anyway, Riverside is so boring place. I want to leave!!

    -Chalrey

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