[ST] [SA] Member Services report: Transportation

[Benjamin Levy]

On Jan 26, 2008 2:45 PM, Lisa Hertel <lisa at cogitation.org> wrote:
> Name of Area?
> Transportation & Parking
>
> What went wrong?
> Lots! The MIT police didn't have a clue no matter how much we explained
> things to them; they were the reason the lunch trucks didn't come.

  I think the Police were taking revenge for the Parking Office giving
away their parking lot.

> We
> had problems with dealers parking on the street, apparently told to do
> so by the hotel; this should be stopped.

  Once we were aware of the problem, we got the trucks moved off of
Amesbury St within an half hour.

> We should ask for the MIT lots until midnight Monday.

  Usually MIT Police doesn't care where you park after hours and on
weekends.  So we essentially had the lots until Tuesday morning, but I
probably wouldn't park in the lot next to the Police Station after
5pm.

> There was no place
> for over height dealer vehicles until 5pm Friday; they were taken to
> Arisia storage. The shuttle driver Friday worked from noon to 4am. The
> shuttle broke down Sunday afternoon and was out for an hour; on Monday
> morning it disappeared for another hour while the driver went to get the
> (supposedly repaired) larger shuttle, drove it half-way back, found it
> still broken, returned it, and went back to the smaller shuttle.

  The change in the color of the shuttle (white to orange) confused people.

> Also, we needed signage *inside* the T stations.

  Especially inside of Kendall.  Starting on Thursday, people were
showing up at the Kendall T station wondering where the shuttle was.

> tell the driver
> not to wait at any stop above a couple of minutes (he was trying to go
> to a schedule, rather than run continuously);

  I spoke to the driver on Sunday, he said he was waiting two minutes
at the Hyatt.
   ---Ben