Day 2

The first task I had on my second day of working for DART was to answer the phones for one of the employees who was out at the time, running errands. Although I didn't get a chance to answer the phone, due to a lack of calls, I was briefly moved to a different part of the building were I shadowed the Planning Project Manager for the rest of the day. His name was John Quinne and he was in charge of projects such as the managing of existing and future dart transit routes. Today's job consisted of leaving the office and physically going down to City Hall to plan out the time it should take for people to walk from the trolly, over the freeway's overpass, instead of underneath the highway, to reach the other side of the street where the underground train tunnel exists. Before we got a chance to leave, a nice lady named Ms. Angie, joined us to help Mr. Quinne with the details along the way. The three of us rode the DART train to City Hall where we started our calculations. I used the stop watch on my phone to measure the amount of time it would take us to walk from the trolly, over the highway overpass, and down to the train tunnel. It took around eleven minutes to do this instead of the normal two, and this was due to the two broken traffic signals needed to walk across the overpass, as well as the lack of sidewalk needed to reach the cross walk. The reason for us to carry this project out is because in a couple of weeks, there will be construction taking place to renovate the stairs and elevators, underground where the trains run. After our project was finished, we rode the train back to the DART headquarters and ate lunch. The days to come will all be different for me because the General Manager, Mr. Victor Burke, whom i met today along with his assistant Becky, wants me to have a look into as many different areas of DART as possible. He wants me to do this because there is not just one job that helps DART to run as a transportation company. There are many jobs that intertwine themselves to create one big finished project, which is DART.