teacher transportation trouble. cindy halifax moved from windsor to mississauga with her parents and...
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Teacher Transportation Trouble
Cindy Halifax moved from Windsor to
Mississauga with her parents and her 15
year old brother Jason in May. They hired
Al’s Moving Company and got the job
done in only 2 days.
A couple of weeks later they were all
settled in and Cindy managed to get a full
time job as a waitress at a restaurant
down the street.
Cindy is 22 years old and is quite
accomplished. She completed her four
year undergraduate degree and applied to
three Bachelor of Education programs in
Ontario.
One evening in February Cindy starts to
prepare herself for her interview the following
day with the University of Ontario (UOIT).
She has never visited the university campus
before and begins to plan out the route she
will take to get there.
She checks the Greyhound Bus Schedule
to figure out when she needs to leave and
when she would arrive in Oshawa.
Unfortunately the bus would not be able to
take her all of the way to campus, so she
consults the Durham Transit website to
find a local connecting bus.
After getting on the wrong bus, Cindy
realizes she is running out of time so
jumps into a taxi and gets a ride the rest of
the way to school.
She arrives on campus and finds her way
over to the building where the interview is
being held. She signs in, writes a case
study, and finally has her interview.
Afterwards she is feeling happy and wants to
celebrate, so she calls her friend Amanda
who lives in Toronto. They decide to meet for
drinks that evening so Cindy goes online to
find a GO Bus that will take her into the city,
where Amanda will pick her up.
After a long evening at a bar, Cindy takes
Amanda up on her offer to spend the
night. The following day Amanda offers to
drive Cindy back to Windsor since she will
be heading that way to visit her
grandfather.
A few months after Cindy’s interview, she
arrives home and sees a letter on the
kitchen table for her. She opens it and
reads her acceptance letter to the
Bachelor of Education program at UOIT.
Cindy realizes that she has a lot of
planning to do, so gets started right away.
She checks her account balance and
realizes that it will be difficult to cover
tuition and all of her costs.
Cindy goes online and fills out an
application for a student loan right away.
Then she begins to consider her
transportation options for the following
year as it will be a 104 mile round trip
daily.
Her parents offer to lend their car to her for
the academic year, but stress that it will be
up to Cindy to cover her own gas and
parking expenses.
Happy to have this option she heads back
to the computer to investigate gas prices
as well as parking costs.
She knows from reading her information
packages that during Math Camp in
August parking will be free. Cindy is still
worrying about her budget so decides to
look into renting a room in Oshawa.
She phones the school to find out the cost
to live in residence and what it includes
then inquires about off campus housing.
She goes to the website to see if there are
any rooms available and narrows the
search down to an all inclusive room in a
house, a basement apartment, and an
apartment building.
Cindy consults the calendar for the school
year (August 15 – May 4) and notes that it
includes three placement blocks.
Although the program is quite intensive
she is happy to see that they get three
weeks of Christmas vacation as well a
reading week in February.
Cindy decides that she would like to speak
to previous students, so she locates a
website that they have created and joins a
chat group.
She asks about managing school as well
as a part time job, because she knows she
will need that income to subsidize her
costs, whether she lives at home or
transfers to the Oshawa location.
She also ends up chatting with a group of
teacher candidates beginning the program
with her, and discovers that there is
someone else who lives in her area who
tells her commuting by bus costs twice as
much as her trip to Toronto.
She also offers to carpool if Cindy is
interested and Cindy tells her she will let her
know as soon as she has looked into all of
her options.
Cindy needs to make a decision
Challenge:
Where would you choose to live?
How would you get to school?
How much would it cost?
Justify your answers.
Car Specifications
• 2003 Toyota Corolla CE Sedan
• 1.8 L Automatic
• Unleaded Fuel
• Fuel Economy EPA Highway (l/100km):6.2
• Curb Weight (kg) 1, 175
UOIT/Durham Parking
• Founders lot 2 or 3
• $460/year
• $230/term
• $80/month
• $20/week
• $10 refundable charge for swipe card
Durham Transit
• Student Fare RatesEffective September 1, 2006
• Student Cash Fare (single ride)$2.25• Student Monthly Pass – *Unrestricted $75.00• Student Monthly Pass - *Restricted $62.50• Student Multi Ride (10) $22.00 • Full-time Student *FREE
Part-time Job
• Waitress
• $7.25/hour
• Average 15 hrs/week (double over
Christmas holidays and reading week)
• Tips
Residence
All fees due beginning of fall semester• Simcoe Village
South Hall/Central Hall$4,500
• North Hall$4,900
• South Village (must also purchase compulsory meal plan)
All suites$4,900
Off Campus Housing
• Room in 4 bedroom house, all inclusive $500/mth,
6km from school on bus route
• Basement Apartment, all inclusive except phone,
$600/mth, 10km from school on bus route
• 1 Bedroom Apartment, includes heat/water,
$550/mth, 4km from school on bus route
Course Calendar
• Placement 1: 4 weeks
• Placement 2: 3 weeks
• Placement 3: 6 weeks
• Time off: 4 weeks (X-mas, reading week)
• In-Class Time: 21 weeks
Gas Prices
• Gas prices fluctuate, but will plateau
around $1/litre
• Gas prices will rise around holidays and
prior to long weekends
Carpooling
• Half of the parking cost for the year
• Half of the gas needed for the year
• Half of the cost of oil changes for the year
(every 5000 km)
Greyhound Bus
• One Way Ticket
• Windsor to Oshawa
• Student Fare
• $46.40
Go Bus Schedule
Adult single-ride ticket $8.15
Adult two-ride ticket $16.30
Adult 10-ride ticket $74.25
Adult monthly pass $263.00
Student 10-ride ticket $66.50
Student monthly pass $195.00
*From Oshawa(UOIT) to Toronto(Union)
Taxi Fare
• Blue Line $2.50 for first 71.4 m, $0.10 for every 71.4 m after
• Yellow Cab
Flag (Includes first 1/13th KM) $2.70$1.58 Per Kilometer
$28.20 Per Hour
• City Taxi $2.75 for the first 0.235 km, $0.25 or each additional 0.190 km
Meal Plans• The Ultimate
– 14 meals per week plus $250.00 flex dollars, $3495.00 Tax Free
• The Hearty Eater – 12 meals per week plus $350.00 flex dollars, $3425.00 Tax Free
• The Commuter – 10 meals per week plus $450.00 flex dollars, $3150.00 Tax Free
• The Commuter II – 320 meals per year plus $400.00 flex dollars, $3295.00 Tax Free
• The Light Eater – 250 meals per year plus $400.00 flex dollars, $2641.82 + GST
• The Mini Plan – 200 meals per year plus $450.00 flex dollars, $2267.99 + GST