When I came up with the idea for this series, I knew I needed a real challenge. Thousands of people ride public transit every day in Houston; average weekday ridership in May 2017, according to Metro data, was 278,428. Some folks are on transit for just a couple of minutes, some for a few hours. If I was really going to experience public transit, I needed to experience how people who don’t live inside the 610 loop feel about the system that often works against them.