Introduction MTA vs Cars

Introduction MTA vs Cars

Introduction and outline for your Comparative Analysis New York City is known as the city that never sleeps. It is one of the most crowded cities that consists of five boroughs where traffic is inevitable. Many movies or shows, like Sex in the City, associates yellow taxi cabs as a common form of transportation of how the people get around. However, there is another valuable form of transportation that these New Yorkers heavily rely on – Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The MTA connects most boroughs through subway trains and buses. It is considered an efficient way to travel around this city as well as a money saving alternative. For most people, getting to the destination is preferably better to be the cheapest and the fastest. Although New York City barely has a service like that, there are more favorable forms of transportation based on people’s inclinations. Some of these people are commuters, residents, visitors, workers, and tourists who are traveling in New York City. Commuters include students from public schools, private schools, college, and universities. Residents consist of people who live in New York City whether they own a car or not; for those who do own or have a car, most likely residents of NYC, has the option to drive to places. Visitors resides with people who are visiting friends or families at their homes or dorms. Workers comprise with mainly the core city, aka Manhattan, those office workers who work the nine-to-five shifts, heavily rely on one form of transportation. Lastly, the tourists who are foreign either to New York State or to the country. Audience The audience for my research question is for anyone who is traveling within New York City – commuters, residents, visitors, workers, and tourists. Residents, commuters and workers in New York City are sick and tired of traffic and frequently occurring MTA troubles. These delays their arrival time to their destination. Since they are so used to the ways traffic is around there, they would want to have the most convenient way to travel around the city. This would depend on the time of day and day of the week the person is traveling, the route they take, how they decide to choose to travel and if any incident happened that day and time. More specifically, some examples of these are parents sending their children to school and then commute to work, business workers who need to commute to the city, people who live in Long Island and works in the city and people trying to get to a job interview. Spending so much time to just get to one place is a waste of time, so there are preferences in how they want to reach their location. For example, taking the car can be the faster option depending on the route and some people want to take the subway because they can do work while they commute. Visitors and tourists would most likely take the subway because it is a cheaper alternative to commute, especially since New York City is already a pretty expensive area to be in. More specifically, friends who are visiting their friends or a family member visiting their family and foreign tourists.