Shuttles are an Extraordinary disappointment

With the addition of the brand new dorm buildings, The Village 1 and 2, High Point University had to help students travel back and forth to main campus for classes every day. The school took the extraordinary approach and decided to invest in several small shuttle busses and one retro looking old time trolley to make living slightly off campus easier. Within the first few hours of the shuttles running, the students realizes that these shuttles were about as far away from extraordinary as could be.

Students began to question why the school could not keep the shuttles on the ‘every 15 minute’ arrival at every stop. Within the first two weeks of classes, the school decided to scratch out the time interval on each and every shuttle stop sign, leaving the students to have no idea what the shuttle schedule was. If there is not designated time of stops at the Village to main campus, then how will students be able to make sure they are able to arrive at class on time? Village 2 resident sophomore Ryan McCarthy states that the shuttles are “Useless, irresponsible and the people who work in the office don’t care what you say. They sat it’s on route even if you see if parked.” Village 1 resident sophomore Joseph Boyle says they are “Dirty buses, overcrowded, rude drivers who drive to slow and there are not enough shuttles.”

It seems that after enough students started to complain about the shuttle, the parents counsel began to ask questions. Nido Qubein and the rest of his high ranking staff began to scramble to answer all of the questions and find solutions to all the problems. After about 2 months, the school decided to change the location of shuttle stops to make them more user friendly for students by adding temporary awnings until they finish building permanent ones to protect students from the weather elements.

These improvements are a step in the right direction, however there is still much room for improvement. To this day, there is still not a definite time that any of the shuttles will arrive at any given location, nor how long it will take to travel from point a to point b. As students more forward and look ahead to next semester, they can only hope that travel between The Village 1 and 2 and Main Campus will become a more scheduled event and will lead to less late arrivals and less headaches.