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Back for Good?
Well it looks like I'm back, although some of the others are still filing in slowly. My internship ended yesterday, so back to working in the lab at school and posting more frequently, I hope.
They finally closed the remaining piece of Forest Park Parkway, so now I am completely walled off from all points west of Apartment 12. I sub on Sally Goldman's summer softball team, which plays its games at the JCC just off of Lindbergh. Normally it takes 20 minutes to get there by taking Forest Park to 170 to Olive to Lindbergh, but the other day it took me 45 minutes. I had to detour through Forest Park, down Wydown, and through Clayton just to get to 170. And school isn't even in session right now, imagine the Fall when our horde of speeding frat boys and sorority girls on their cell phones descend upon campus and clog up the two remaining roads we have left. It will take half an hour every day just to get from here to campus.
My solution is a simple one: dig a tunnel from the Apartment 12 parking lot to the Hilltop lot. The entrance on our end will be inside a gate, so it will never be crowded with through traffic, and it give the school an excuse to embark upon another year-long construction project that shows wanton disregard for area residents and businesses. Perhaps it will be done by 2005, when Forest Park reopens.
Comments
I was thinking of building a big ol' bridge from Debalivere to main campus, and then charging a toll for people to use it, with free passes given out to people that I like.
Posted by: Nathan at August 3, 2003 12:03 AM
I've become more dependent on my detour down Waterman to get to school these days (going through Snow Way is quicker for me to get to work), and I constantly pass a lot of bored students waiting for the shuttle. Maybe I should make myself a tiny shuttle; place a WU shuttle sign on my windshield and see if anyone needs a ride to campus.
Posted by: Amy at August 4, 2003 3:35 PM
Even better, charge money for it. You could call yourself AmyLink, or something equally copyright-infringing, and give them a ride anywhere that is on the way to work.
Posted by: Chris Hill Festival at August 4, 2003 4:24 PM
Well, since they're firing all of the shuttle drivers ANYWAY so they can contract out the work, maybe nobody will notice that you aren't an "official" WU shuttle.
Posted by: Brian at August 5, 2003 12:20 PM
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