Buses stuck in snow cause students to wait for more than an hour
Two buses were stuck in snow on South Campus early Wednesday morning, said Puba Powell, a Centro bus driver. This, along with other weather concerns, left students waiting for the bus at College Place for more than an hour.
The buses were stuck on Winding Ridge and at the Skyhalls, Powell said. He was driving the Winding Ridge bus, which fishtailed off the road into a ditch, he said. No students were injured. Neither bus had visible damage.
It would help if the roads were cleared better and salted, Powell said.
Students at College Place waited for at least an hour, and the bus arrived at 2:58 a.m. Danielle Lemon, a sophomore public health major, said she began waiting for the bus at 2 a.m. Wednesday. If she wasn’t waiting for the bus to South Campus, she said she would be sleeping or studying for finals. She said she hopes classes would be canceled.
When she went to DPS in Sims Hall to complain, she said she was told buses were running late and DPS was no longer providing shuttles home.
‘They told me to take a taxi,’ she said.
Mimi Etuk, a senior information technology major, said she would be studying for a psychology test she has later this week instead of waiting. But with the weather, delayed buses are expected, Etuk said.
‘I can’t really blame them,’ she said. ‘The road’s bad, I haven’t really seen snow plows come. Campus is a mess.’
Centro manages the Syracuse University bus system but was unable to be reached for comment.
Published on December 7, 2010 at 12:00 pm
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