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Volume 1, Issue 3 9/20/12 - 9/26/12
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Something To Read While Waiting for the Bus
Lauren Bryant wrote this
Wasn’t everyone else under the false impression that the bus system was supposed to make our lives easier? Last year, we went from place to place with hardly any problems. However, sometime between last semester and this semester the transportation gods decided that UVa students have (in typical UVa fashion) committed one too many sins and must repent this year in the form of lots of extra walking, waiting for buses, and being late. Here are some of the ways that the transportation gods are trying to complicate our lives: The buses can’t cross McCormick Bridge anymore. You may be saying, “Oh that’s no big deal, I can just walk across the bridge. It’s not very long.” But you would be forgetting all of the other issues that this causes. For instance, say you are coming from Rugby or 14th Street and you want to go to Alderman to cram for those three exams you have tomorrow. Your backpack is as full as you could get it, with four textbooks, a notebook, pens, your laptop, and plenty of snacks for this inevitable all-nighter. Basically, it weighs a hundred pounds. Since the buses can’t cross McCormick Bridge, you are going to have to choose whether you would like to walk all the way from Beta Bridge to Alderman or all the way up the hill from the tennis courts with a hundred pounds of knowledge on your back. Either way, it’s not a good situation because you still have to walk a hell of a long way, dragging with you the equivalent of a very smart, very fat midget. Also, it sucks that the buses don’t seem to be on any sort of timed schedule at all. We can’t count the number of times that we’ve gotten to a bus stop and seen that there were three Northlines coming in the next twenty minutes, but the next U-Loop was in thirty minutes. Let’s just say there is a strong correlation between the number of times this has happened and the number of times we’ve walked home. The bus routes are not even close to what they were last year. It’s taken students so long to figure out where each bus went this year because we thought (silly us) that even
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though the buses couldn’t cross McCormick Bridge, they would still go on similar routes with a few changes. Wrong. So much time was wasted on the wrong bus in the few days before and at the beginning of classes, that as a student body we could have written a New York Times Best Seller on the bus. This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as bus issues go. If there were another hundred pages of space, we could also tell you about the time that three buses broke down before 9a.m. Or about the time that a certain student realized the
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Northline stops at U-Hall twice before going to Barracks Road, and you don’t know if the time you get on at U-Hall is the first or the second time, and therefore, what you think should be a 10 minute ride, turns out to be a 40 minute ride. Or about the time that the buses were running on the holiday schedule because it was Labor Day, even though our classes were on a regular schedule. Needless to say, it looks like we’re all going to have some rock hard calf muscles by the end of the year.
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