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...disconcerting of sounds, sights, and activities. I found that Harvard’s urban setting is not an asset, but one of the institution’s most notable weaknesses. In Cambridge, I no longer wake to the chirping of birds. Their songs have been replaced by the Harvard shuttle??s boorish droning. The shuttle, like a persistent suitor, returns to its place beneath my Mather window every ten minutes from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, offering up its garbled, biodiesel-tainted entreaties and refusing to take no for an answer. Worse than that...
Indeed, the cost of the shuttles (in light of the shuttle??s low ridership) appears to be the administration’s primary factor in making decisions about the duration of nighttime shuttle service; the cost of running shuttles between 12:30 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. is about $35,000 per semester, according to McLoughlin. But student safety should be a far more important concern. Students who are schlepping from the River Houses to the Quad at 3:15 a.m. do not take the shuttle merely because of convenience; there are serious questions about the safety...
Still, the late-night shuttle??s reprieve is, as of now, only temporary, and McLoughlin says that University Hall will reconsider the issue this summer when it has a full year of ridership data to examine. While there is reason for optimism that late-night ridership will be shown to have increased after the spring—a warm fall likely led to decreased use of the shuttles—University Hall should permanently run the shuttle service on its current schedule, regardless of any spring semester changes in usage. It is hardly worth risking the nighttime safety...
...phenomenon that is peculiar, given the centrality and relative safety of Harvard’s campus, we devote as much time to avoiding walking as we do to complaining about how far we’ve been obliged to walk. We memorize shuttle schedules and keep the shuttle??s number in our cell phones. We are not above taking taxis to the Quad. On weekend nights, hordes of inadequately-clad undergraduates throng the Johnston Gate shuttle stop...
...majority of the shuttle??s customers are graduate students like Zimmerman. The shuttle is also popular with international students, who pass on knowledge of its existence through their grapevine. Moran adds that many Harvard students use it to go to bars or even the supermarket. “People pile in the shuttle when it’s cold out,” Moran quips...