Letters to the Editor: Winter holidays complicate transportation situation
Like many others this holiday season, I had problems with the campus bus service during term break. On Dec. 23, the 7:30 Central bus never came, so I waited in the cold for 30 minutes, wondering if in fact the 8 a.m. bus would come (it did). Careful to determine bus schedules before the break began, I checked the website, called Duke transportation and checked with bus drivers (who radioed into headquarters for me). I was explicitly told that although there would be no East-West buses, the Central bus would run every 30 minutes from 7:30 a.m. until early evening, except for Christmas Day and New Years Day. On the morning of Dec. 23, a bus driver informed me that in fact there would be no central bus on Dec. 24 or 31. Holiday plans are sometimes made around the ability to get to work, and although Dec. 24 and 31 are university holidays, they are not Medical Center holidays.