Every morning when I park in Thompson, I have to deal with this wretched invention. The bus idles in front of the few parking spots I am allowed to park in with my Town of Hanover pass, forcing me to park further away from the entrance in less convenient spots. If I am lucky enough to avoid the AT in the morning and get a good spot, when I want to leave in the afternoon, the AT is almost always planted in front of my spot. When I let the driver know that I'm blocked in, he doesn't leave for 3 more minutes or so, "waiting" for any more passengers who might get on the shuttle. Seriously, how many Dartmouth employees are trying to get from the Thompson parking lot into town at 2 in the afternoon? Are there so many people who use this service that the shuttle needs to run every five minutes, making it nearly impossible for me to avoid?
And even if I don't encounter the AT when I am trying to park, the AT drives slowly throughout town, causing significant delays and traffic jams. Just this morning the AT stopped to let someone off a few feet beyond the RMS drop-off intersection, causing a traffic jam and forcing all cars and students trying to cross the street to wait 30 seconds at a standstill as the passenger got off.
Why, Advance Transit management, do you put your stops right off of busy intersections? Or why do you have a shuttle that runs every 5 minutes throughout the work day and parks right in front of parking spots that people need to use? I think that as much as the AT helps people, it also harms people, and I would like to see reform in the AT system to remedy some of these problems.
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