Pace Paw Print

We all know and love our Pace bus shuttle that safely transports us to our designated locations from Miller Hall, to Wilcox, to Metro North, to Briarcliff and so forth. We love it even more especially during these painfully cold winter months where we can find refuge under these welcoming, warm and sheltered vehicles to take us to-and-fro.

Let's not leave out the friendly chauffeurs we see everyday, who usually greet us with a smile and a gracious, "How you doin' today?" We sure appreciate them.

But how often are we lucky enough to see them, is the bigger question. Every twenty minutes would be the best response. For some, that isn't frequent enough. As we are all aware, living in the great state of New York, many rely on public transportation. For those who dorm at Pace or use their own cars to commute, twenty minutes isn't so much of a problem to make their classes on time.

Let's take a commuter student from the Bronx who takes the Metro North every day under consideration. If the Metro North runs a few minutes late, and that student arrives at 9:52 a.m. just in time to be prompt to their 10:05 class, but just missed the Pace shuttle by two minutes. The student would then have to wait another eighteen minutes just for the bus to arrive at 10:10. It would take the shuttle about three minutes to get to campus, making him or her eight minutes late. To some professors, tardiness equals an absence.

One freshman suggests the bus "should make stops at least every 10 minutes or just have more shuttles to go around."

Whether Pace can afford the gas money to run more shuttles is an issue. But another issue is why the Miller Hall bus idly stops for a whole five minutes. A bus driver would probably respond by saying that there's simply more passengers from Miller who might be a couple of minutes late running from their last class. But why doesn't the shuttle remain parked that long at the next Wilcox Hall stop?

A mother that was buying her daughter's books spotted the waiting bus, and commented "this is a waste of gas."

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