I really had one project
to do today, actually that's not true I had two. Run over to the
market get a few things to get to the week (I know they said snow
yesterday on the radio and the TV) and to wrestle down the process of
using the new app the Utah transit Authority is pushing for demand
transportation. It's not really a big deal but I have to roll quite a
distance from the closest UTA bus stop in South Jordan to get to my
wheelchair shop. This new program would send a vehicle picked me up
at some point and take me to the future shop and I assume back again
to that point.
The program is called Via,
I don't know if the letters stand for anything or not, it's program
you have to register for which means of course it's all modern fancy
meeting you got a use and establish passwords and download apps to
work on your cell phone or computer. I don't know why but the process
is been very threatening to me. I started off by contacting the
transit authority to switch the over to the program itself. They want
you to set up an account to use the service. This means giving them
your name and number and even some sort of means of plastic credit
card are other form of payment. The little person on the phone made
it sound like it is just easy thing to do but it wasn't for me and I
may have been making a harder than the process deserved. This was
just setting up the gateways like to get into the program. I
downloaded the wrong at first there's a driver app and that's what I
downloaded just not the right one and let me know that in no
uncertain terms. This project was all been accomplished of course by
multiple calls into the “support” center. Mary was the main
person I seem to work with every time I called in with one-time
exception of Simón. I mean really, I do have some tech skills or at
least I like to think so. However, the questions I could trying to
formulate and the way that I sounded I know I exemplified the out of
touch senior citizen trying to use a phone system smarter than he.
I'm hoping that with repetition the process will get easier. Right
now the services offered just to programs way south of the city.
Unlike the think that perhaps this demand ride system might be even
more ubiquitous to the area. I don't really understand the process
exactly. They say they're using wheelchair accessible vehicles-which
in my case I'm going to need-but the system is supposedly a system
like Lift or Uber which uses just regular people to drive people
around. This is going to be interesting I think.
Tomorrow, I have a 10
o'clock appointment with my wheelchair shop. I've got to take two
buses to get there route 217 and then 218. I have a significant wait
some going to have to leave early. I was hoping to use the via system
to go straight to the butcher shop from the 217 and the line or EOL.
So I'm a little frustrated are a little frightened or maybe just a
little old new things just don't come easy…
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