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...early as 12:30 a.m. on weekdays—clearly too early considering Lamont Library is open until 12:45 a.m. and students routinely do homework together well past then. After administrators made the overdue decision last spring to extend shuttles into the early morning, low late-night ridership recently led University Hall to consider scaling back service to 3 a.m. or 2 a.m. But faced with a volley of student e-mails imploring them to keep the shuttles running, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...first glance, Gross and McLoughlin seemed to have a reasonable justification for, at the very least, scaling back the weekday shuttles. Unlike the late-night weekend shuttles, whose ridership remains high well into the early morning, shuttles on Sunday through Thursday nights have been running nearly empty. According to McLoughlin, an average of one or two riders per day rode a weekday shuttle after 3 a.m. this semester, and the post-3 a.m. service was spared only because shuffling the drivers’ schedules would not have saved a substantial amount of money...
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...
...Ridership was down because of traffic concerns in the week of the convention,” said Martino...
...have to work on publicizing the service to see if numbers increase. If ridership remains extremely low after more time then maybe we should do some cost benefit analysis...