I'm currently a student at Rutgers University and being a commuting student means that every minute counts. With my commute being a total of two hours, I have to time everything perfectly. If there's traffic, my time is thrown off. If I don't get there and the bus doesn't come for another 15 minutes, I could possibly be late to class. And I'm not here to complain about that because it's my job to get there on time and I actually don't normally have too much of a problem getting there on time. HOWEVER, I am here to complain about the lack of buses that are available for the students. Being that there is almost a total of 50,000 students, you would think that we would have a ton of buses taking us to and from the campuses that we need to go to... but there's really not enough.
What really aggravates me is that because there are so little buses available to students... students actually have to get aggressive in order to get on the bus they need in order to get to class on time. So aggressive that I got elbowed in the face by another student who wanted to get in front of me to get on the bus... and I'm sure that I am not the only student to experience another student getting physical with another student to make sure they get a spot on the bus. It's not okay and students shouldn't have to feel that much pressure because there are not enough buses.
I may be wrong but I believe that there are only about 3-5 LX buses that are available to us. Although that may seem like a decent amount of buses, our school is highly populated. And being that is the most popular bus in the entire school... it makes it extremely difficult for us students to be able to get a spot on it. I think that if we were to get at least one or two more buses, it would help us students a lot and it would provide us a much safer environment because people won't feel like they have to get so aggressive due to the lack of buses that are available.
With almost 50,000 students with a tuition rate of being about $14,000 a year and higher (it's only that low for me because I commute)... I think that the school could definitely afford to pay for an extra bus. I don't want to come off as rude but after hearing so many students complain about sending in recommendations for a new bus and not getting any replies, I hope this gains your attention and really puts it into consideration.
Sincerely,
A student who got elbowed in the face because there aren't enough buses
