While she waits for the 29 bus under the overhang to protect herself from the rain, SF State freshman Soparah Keo throws her hood on, wraps her arms around herself, and wonders when the bus will come.

Keo’s commute to and from school can be tiring, but she is unable to afford a car at the moment.

As a main component of the city, public transportation allows the people of San Francisco to get from point A to B, but not without complications. Transportation and parking problems plague students and professors on campus and off.

The stress of relying on public transportation to be on time is something that each commuter deals with differently.

“If it’s late, I’m late,” said theater professor Todd Roehrman who prefers to drive to school because of working late hours.

In addition to transportation provided by the city, many San Franciscans take the issue into their own hands.

SF State extended education student Liana Wenger,34, said public transportation is great, but prefers to ride her scooter around the city because of its speed, reliability, cheap cost and the ease in parking it provides.

According to Wenger, the negative side of riding a scooter is the need to dress more appropriately and more comfortably.

“You can’t always dress cute with a scooter,” she said.

Some commuters want the freedom of being able to relax or accomplish things during their journey, which they could not do driving, such as political science professor Angelika Von Wahl who tends to multitask.

“You are being driven around, you don’t have to deal with traffic,” Von Wahl said. “I read the newspaper.”

Von Wahl owns a car but prefers to use public transportation.

“I only do public transportation,” Von Wahl said. “I don’t want to hassle with the car and street cleaning. Street cleaning is a dirty and wicked invention.”

It is not so much the public transportation nuisances that affect Ellen Marsh, rather the problems that arise on campus that irritate her.

“Parking is a big drag,” said Marsh, a Masters of Fine Arts graduate student. “It’s expensive, the machines break down.”

Marsh has contested parking tickets because she said the machines do not function properly. She currently has a $75 ticket that she has yet to pay.

“Sometimes they take $5 bills sometimes they don’t,” she said. “I buy a $50 parking pass and it’s defective. This is a horrible situation and something needs to be done.”

For someone who is trying to avoid the cost of commuting, there is the option of riding a bike.

“It doesn’t cost anything,” said Alex Meimand, a 21-year-old art major. “It makes you feel better. It wakes you up before class.”

The negative aspect of riding a bike is the danger in being hit by a car, which Meimand has experienced a few times. He said he was hit near school by a woman who didn’t even stop.

“I was walking to her car and she drove off,” Meimand said. “I followed her on my bike but I couldn’t catch up to her.”

Meimand said the other bad thing about riding a bike is torturing his classmates with the stench he may have obtained while riding his bike to school.

“I don’t really care, but I feel bad for the other people,” he said.