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...sometimes you go bust. For example, when the dispatcher tells you at 11 p.m. to walk ten blocks to catch the shuttle. Or when you're told to go outside and wait for an escort that takes 45 minutes to arrive (a.k.a. "right away"). Or when the car simply doesn't show...
...escort service stops taking calls at 2:40 a.m., well before the streets are safe for walking. At this point, two options are available. You can sleep wherever you are or call HUPD...
...some degree, this succeeds. Before, a student wishing to go from Lamont to Quincy would fall through the cracks of Harvard transportation, unable to utilize the shuttle, the escort or HUPD. Students who need to travel short distances can now do so without fear, as the organizers intended...
...walking service is also being exploited by Harvard as a direct substitute for the normal transportation system. Apparently, as dispatchers have told us in the past, the Harvard escort service defines a "short distance" as the walk from Plympton St. to the Quad...
...founders of the walking service had a great idea. More kudos to them. But it's in danger of becoming an excuse for the University to shirk its transportation duties to students. Quite frankly, there would probably be much less demand for a walking service if the escort service, shuttle buses and HUPD worked the way they should...