"While we're fixated on rail because it's sexy and everyone wants to ride the iron horse, we have to keep in mind what might be more viable," Debra Johnson said.
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Jesse Espinoza, left, has dreams of getting into the entertainment business. On Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, he was riding Pueblo Transit to a plasma center.
The route 11 bus was not exactly where Jesse Espinoza wanted to be on a recent morning. He had lost his job as a warehouse packer the day before and was on his way to sell plasma.
But he was grateful he had a way to get there.
“I really don’t have anyone to help me out,” the 21-year-old Pueblo native said as the bus rattled through the city’s southwest neighborhoods. “The bus is my only source of transportation right now. I could take a taxi or something, but when I’m broke the bus is really it.”