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Nighttime Door-to-Door will offer extra precautions, services
Marisa Schnaith
Issue date: 12/4/07 Section: Front Page
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These changes include requiring students to have their Miami ID with them when boarding the van, as well as attempting to utilize the Blue Route as a supplemental nighttime service.
According to Assistant Director of Parking and Transportation Services Vanessa Cummings, the Nighttime Door-to-Door van will soon be requiring students to have their picture ID when riding. When this policy first goes into effect, the van drivers will likely accept any form of picture ID but Cummings suggested that in the future, riding the van might require swiping your Miami ID. Cummings was not sure how soon this policy would officially begin.
"Our goal right now is to get people in the process of realizing (that) when you call the service to have your ID with you," she said.
This new policy has been created in response to a recommendation received by Parking Services regarding students' safety on board the van.
"(The Nighttime Door-to-Door service) is a safe ride that's provided and designed to transport one to two students who are riding alone," Cummings said.
According to Cummings, this new policy will ensure that the riders are who they say they are, guaranteeing that the students who called are the ones being picked up. Though this has not been a big problem in the past, Cummings explained that this new policy would simply help to make the service more efficient.
A second option Cummings discussed that Parking Services is considering in order to make the Nighttime Door-to-Door service as effective as possible is to use the Blue Route bus as a secondary Nighttime Door-to-Door transportation. Cummings explained that students will still call the regular number for the van service and that this change will not divert the Blue Bus from its regular route, but would simply involve communication between the Nighttime Door-to-Door van driver and the driver of the Blue Route. If the van driver determines that a student who called is on the Blue Route and wants to be dropped off somewhere along the Blue Route, he or she will send the bus to pick them up instead.
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