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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly I wonder if things would have been different if she could gave called a cab or an UBER.  She has her cell. She was texting for someone to come find her.  I suggested to my friend who has a first year at UVA to get her an uber app on her phone set up on her credit card.  I am not sure if uber is in C'ville but it is in Richmond now.  I have used I when I have been at a party, even family friendly parities where I am with my kids and I just didn't feel right driving.  These apps can be very useful.

Regardless I feel Hannahn could have been anyone's daughter, the entire thing. Heart breaking.[/quote]

As a former UVA female student and recent Charlottesville resident, I can say that finding a cab at that hour isn't always the easiest. And I don't know if Uber is in Charlottesville or not, but when DH and I tried to Uber after a football game recently, nothing came up. There was a safe driver program operated by the police, but it definitely wasn't prevalent enough. I certainly made poor choices in terms of getting home at night; I knew it was stupid, but it was hard/expensive to find a cab (and at this point, I'd be scared witless now that I know who was operating them) and my friends weren't ready to leave the bar when I was. Charlottesville and the University really need to join forces to get a reliable, safe, ubiquitous transit service in place for students and make it a no-brainer for them to use. In addition, I'd suggest increasing police presence at certain locations and early morning hours. Charlottesville is a wonderful place, but I definitely wouldn't recommend walking around the city late at night. Downtown and surrounding areas are mostly shadier than not past 10 p.m.

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Does UVA have any sort of evening shuttle service?  I went to U Penn which at the time was in a very dangerous part of Philadelphia and we never walked at night because the escort van (which operated until 3 AM) was so easy to catch.  I'm surprised UVA doesn't have something similar. [/quote]

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