<p>How safe/dangerous would it be walking from DRL to University City station at 8:30 pm? I know it's not a far walk but it's also not the central part of campus either, so would there still be security and Penn police around that area?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that 8:30 pm on a college campus is still a very active time. There will still be a lot of people around. </p>
<p>This might be helpful as far as the Penn Patrol Zone goes</p>
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<p>Thank you very much @parentofpeople!! That map is very helpful. I was thinking more about the fact that it will dark rather than the fact that there will still be many people around at that time. I should have thought about that.</p>
<p>You are welcome @RoseOak3918 . Also, if the station is the one I am thinking of, it is along a very popular path of grad students walking back and forth over the South Street bridge. Even though there aren’t classrooms right there, it is still an area well traveled by students well into the night time!</p>
<p>Well-traveled by students, and well-traveled by lots of other people, too. What’s in the immediate area of the station are the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Penn Tower, the largest hotel serving the university area. Plus university athletic fields, which I believe are often in use and lit well into the night. And it’s just off the South Street bridge, which is one of the highest-use routes between University City and Center City, and the other side of which is one of the hippest neighborhoods in the city. It’s not some lonely, isolated place in a bad neighborhood some blocks from the college. It’s more or less in the middle of the action. (Not necessarily on the platform, though.)</p>
<p>Going anywhere in the city, you need to maintain some basic level of street smarts and be aware of your surroundings. On or off campus, day or night. But there’s no special concern about being in that neighborhood in the evening after dark.</p>