The Austin Community College District is urging all students, faculty, and staff to take a few minutes to participate in a brief survey regarding their commuting patterns to ACC.
This survey is a follow-up to the transportation survey conducted in November and is part of a comprehensive transportation study. The current survey will provide more detailed information about the commuting patterns of students, faculty, and staff and will assist in addressing transportation needs at ACC.
Click here to go to the survey. (You will be directed off the ACC website.) The survey should take only 10-15 minutes to complete.
Survey responses will provide valuable input into future decisions about alternative transportation strategies. This survey on commuting patterns will be available until May 31, 2009. If you have any questions or need technical assistance, please contact Rich Griffiths at (512) 223.7606 or at [email protected].
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By Helene R Schmidt June 8, 2009 - 9:46 pm
I would like to leave commentary on the survey which I only learned about today!
I TAKE THE BUS –CAPITAL METRO BUS.
Just the regular bus, not Special Transit.
I LOST MY FINANCIAL AID FOR A WHILE BECAUSE I WAS UNABLE TO GET TO A CLASS I NEEDED TO TAKE WHICH WAS HELD ON THE CYPRESS CREEK CAMPUS IN CEDAR PARK AND I WAS UNABLE TO COMPLETE MY DEGREE WITHOUT IT!
That meant I had to be held over when I could have graduated because there was NO bus service to Cypress Creek because the city council of Cedar Park did not want MINORITIES AND “BUS TRASH” coming into their mainly all-white upper class community. I needed two criminal justice classes and there is seeming to be a migration of the Criminal Justice Department from the Eastview Campus to the Cypress Creek campus.
I attempted to get to Cypress Creek campus anyway and BECAUSE I DID NOT HAVE A CAR, I HAD TO DEPEND ON A RIDE BACK TO MY HOME FROM A RELATIVE WHO WORKED UNPREDICTABLE HOURS AND I WAS STUCK THERE ONE MORNING IN CEDAR PARK UNTIL 4 A.M. AND SOME YOUNG MEN IN A JEEP THREW BEER BOTTLES AT ME! I WAS STUCK THERE AT LEAST EIGHT OCCASIONS AND THE CAMPUS MANAGER HAD TO STAY WITH ME ON ONE OF THOSE OCCASIONS.
BECAUSE I DID NOT HAVE A CELL PHONE I COULD NOT CALL THE CEDAR PARK POLICE AND I DID NOT WANT TO BE HARASSED BY THEM EITHER BECAUSE I WAS WAITING ON A STREET CORNER AT 3 A.M. OR SO.
IT WAS HELL FOR ME. I DO NOT EVER WANT TO TAKE ANY MORE CLASSES THERE.
I HAVE MISSED THE BUS ON ONE OCCASION AT EASTVIEW CAMPUS AND HAD TO WAIT THERE UNTIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT AND I USED TO HAVE A CLASS AT RIO GRANDE WHEN THEY HAD THE DILLO BUS THAT CAME BY AND IT STOPPED RUNNING AT 9 P.M. AND MY CLASS GOT OUT AT 10 P.M. I HAVE INSTRUCTORS WHO DO NOT WANT TO KEEP THE CLASSES UNTIL 9:30 P.M. AT RIO GRANDE CAMPUS BECAUSE OF THE TRANSIENTS WHO SLEEP UNDER THE BRIDGE AND IN THE GREEN AREAS NEAR THE FOOTBALL FIELD. I HAVE BEEN ACCOSTED BY THESE DERELICTS WHO WERE MALODOROUS AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AND/OR A ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE WHILE I HAD TO WALK UNESCORTED ALMOST EVERY NIGHT MY CLASSES RAN UNTIL 10 P.M.TO THE BUS STOP ON LAVACA ACROSS THE STREET FROM CHARLIE’S BAR ON LAVACA. CHARLIE’S IS A GAY BAR AND WHILE YOU ARE WAITING FOR THE BUS ON THAT BENCH AFTER 10 P.M., GAY BASHERS WILL DRIVE BY AND CURSE YOU AND SOMETIMES YELL THREATEN AND THROW THINGS AT YOU. THE DERELICTS WILL GET ON THE BUS TOO AND TRY TO FOLLOW YOU TO YOUR DESTINATION.
SOMETIMES NOBODY CAME TO GET ME BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE WORKING AN ALL-NIGHT PRIVATE SECURITY POST THAT HAD COME UP UNEXPECTEDLY AND I HAD TO STAY AT THE BUS STOP ALL NIGHT AND STUDY THERE. I HAVE A 3.67 GPA UNDER OFTEN HELLISH CONDITIONS. I CAN’T LIST ALL OF THE TIMES I HAVE BEEN THREATENED, SOLICITED FOR MONEY, PROPOSITIONED AND HAD THINGS THROWN AT ME.
IT IS VERY HUMILIATING TO BE WRITTEN UP BY THE CAMPUS POLICE BECAUSE YOU HAD NO WAY TO LEAVE WHEN THEY CLOSED UP THE CAMPUS.BECAUSE I HAVE A MOBILITY IMPAIRMENT –I AM IN OSD PROGRAM BUT I AM NOT DISABLED ENOUGH TO QUALIFY FOR SPECIAL TRANSIT SERVICES AND I CANNOT AFFORD A CAB TO ELGIN,TEXAS.
I HAVE TO RIDE THE BUS AND THE MONTHLY BUS PASS FOR STUDENTS THAT USED TO BE $5 A MONTH IS NOW $7 A MONTH WHICH IS TWO MEALS FOR ME.
IF I CAN SALVAGE THE DAMAGE DONE TO MY FINANCIAL AID, I HAVE TWO MORE SEMESTERS AT ACC BEFORE I TRANSFER TO A PRE-LAW PROGRAM AT A FOUR-YEAR SCHOOL TO WHICH I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED.
NOT HAVING TRANSPORTATION MEANS THAT SOME STUDENTS WHO CAN NOT AFFORD A CAR AND CANNOT RIDE A BICYCLE ( I CAN NOT RIDE A BICYCLE DUE TO INNER-EAR ISSUES.) OR AFFORD ONE IF I COULD.
I FEEL LIKE I AM BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY BEING UNABLE TO GET TO MANY ACC LOCATIONS BECAUSE I HAVE NO TRANSPORTATION EXCEPT FOR CAPITAL METRO AND I FEEL AS IF I LOST MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO TAKE CLASSES WHERE I MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED SPECIAL INSTRUCTION AND ASSISTANCE THAT I NEEDED SINCE I CAME FROM A HISTORICALLY UNDERPERFORMING HIGH SCHOOL HERE IN AUSTIN,TEXAS THAT HAS BEEN SLATED FOR CLOSURE.
I KNOW I AM TOO LATE FOR THE SURVEY BUT I THINK THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PLANNING THESE TRANSPORTATION ISSUES SHOULD BE AWARE THAT NOT EVERYBODY IS A YOUNG OR RICH STUDENT WHO CAN AFFORD THEIR OWN VEHICLE OR CAN RIDE A BICYCLE.