Damn. Lucky you. My campus was just super huge without that. There was a campus bus, but it was expensive. It sometimes took a good half an hour to get to your class if you walked, which sucked in the winter. To quote Phil Ochs, “to get around this campus, why you’d almost need a plane.”
It seems like the rationale there is that there’s more than one campus in the same town. Not the case with IU, just one massive campus. But they could still do a rapid transit system and not charge far more than the city bus charges.
Their website tells me the campus is nearly 2000 acres. I don’t doubt it. It’s only gotten bigger since I was there.
Damn. Lucky you. My campus was just super huge without that. There was a campus bus, but it was expensive. It sometimes took a good half an hour to get to your class if you walked, which sucked in the winter. To quote Phil Ochs, “to get around this campus, why you’d almost need a plane.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit
It was the butt of a lot of jokes at the time, but looking back, it was pretty nice.
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It seems like the rationale there is that there’s more than one campus in the same town. Not the case with IU, just one massive campus. But they could still do a rapid transit system and not charge far more than the city bus charges.
Their website tells me the campus is nearly 2000 acres. I don’t doubt it. It’s only gotten bigger since I was there.