{"id":7064,"date":"2015-08-19T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/?p=37455&lang=en"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:23","slug":"eurekadeelnemers-lopen-soms-uur-naar-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/08\/19\/eurekadeelnemers-lopen-soms-uur-naar-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Eureka Participants Sometimes Walk to the Station for an Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a long day of activities and partying, some students choose to sleep in their own bed. So they set off to Central Station \u2013 on foot, because there are no shuttle buses between the university campus and the station this year either. For many visitors, this can mean an hour\u2019s walk home.<\/p>\n

Waiting for the bus
\n<\/strong>After the evening programme, you can take the bus to an after party at the various associations, but things don\u2019t always go to plan. On Monday evening Evert wanted to return to Leiden and got on the bus at the Kuip which takes Eureka Week visitors to other parties. \u2018I heard that a bus was going to caf\u00e9 De Beurs in the centre, so I got in. Half an hour later, I was still waiting for it to leave. Apparently, the bus only goes when it\u2019s full. So I got out and took the tram instead.\u2019 Being independent is a vital requirement at EUR, but many students aren\u2019t keen on using their own bike or borrowing a public transport bike. \u2018It\u2019s not practical if you\u2019ve got a bike, you have to keep it with you all day. Obviously, you don\u2019t usually return to the place you started, so your bike is somewhere else,\u2019 Evert tells EM.
\nNo metro trains, just trams<\/strong>
\nCommittee members Cas Walter and Aim\u00e9e Tilmans confirmed that the bus didn\u2019t leave immediately. \u2018We hired seven buses to take people to the student associations on Monday evening. This year our evening programme was at the Kuip and no metro trains go there. A tram can take 200 people and the association minibuses often only take nine people, so we hired buses to get a couple of thousand people to their destination,\u2019 says Walter.<\/p>\n

\u2018And you\u2019re right, on Monday evening the buses didn\u2019t leave for the centre immediately, but we changed this after people complained. We wanted the buses to leave full, but eventually we instructed the drivers that they could leave when they were half full,\u2019 says Tilmans. But a survey of students revealed that there was a demand for a shuttle bus which stops between the campus, Blaak and Central Station several times. \u2018Most of the parties were in or around the centre, and I\u2019m sure that if you asked at the student associations whether you can get a lift to Central Station, they would oblige,\u2019 Tilmans concludes.<\/p>\n\n\t

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