Word: riverred
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Quadlings should not have to choose between working on a group project with friends who live on the River and coming home safely, or running a quality student group event and coming home safely, or just working late in Lamont and coming home safely. The shuttle cuts have the potential to not only restrict these pursuits, but also to increase the incidence of students feeling pressured to stay in others’ rooms or being unable to leave a situation that makes them uncomfortable...
...shuttles falls and demand for the night bus increases. Furthermore, the decreased number of shuttles means that those remaining will be even more crowded, presenting significant accessibility concerns for students with wheelchairs. Given the lack of convenient travel options, Quad students with disabilities have considerably diminished access to River facilities, to the extent that the dearth of late-night transportation practically imposes a curfew on their leaving the Quad...
...diminished services that result from the budget cuts greatly substantiate perceptions that Quad Houses are in some way “lesser” than River Houses. All are familiar with the embarrassing Housing Day spectacle of tear-stained cheeks on the devastated faces of those who didn’t gain coveted access to Adams or Eliot. While much of the strange stigma associated with Cabot, Currier, and Pforzheimer Houses is ill-founded, transportation difficulties may now begin to outweigh the beautiful rooms and tight-knit community. Implications of the Quad commute might now actually provide a credible excuse...
...well as the density and connectivity of the planned residential communities. Bob Kroin, the BRA’s chief architect, opened the meeting with a PowerPoint presentation detailing a vision of a transformed neighborhood with highlighted green avenues and parks that would connect residential sectors to the Charles River. He said that the “industrial history of North Allston has left it with major gaps in infrastructure that might otherwise have consolidated connected residential communities,” but that because the Holton Street Corridor is heavily Harvard-owned, it provides an opportunity to conduct...
...which operate until 3 a.m.—though “service reductions will likely take place to this service as well.”But droves of students—especially Quad residents—expressed concern about the dangers of having to walk from the river to the Quad late at night, especially those who rely on Lamont Library as a late-night study space.“We care about your safety,” Hammonds said to the Cabot group. “We don’t want to do anything...