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Stranded and shivering

Hundreds of university students were stranded on Burnaby Mountain for hours Friday.

The chaos was caused when Simon Fraser University cancelled final exams and closed the campus just before 3 p.m. because of snowy conditions, giving students only about 30 minutes notice.

That sent students scrambling to the bus loops, but TransLink was crippled by weather delays and detours. 

Julia Lewis was left shivering in the cold for hours.

"I'm so unimpressed with Simon Fraser. Anyone can see that it's snowing outside," Lewis told CTV News. "When they cancelled previously on Monday, I got a text at like 7:30 in the morning."

She said the situation was a crowded, disorganized mess.

"People are being misdirected constantly. I was at one bus loop, they told me to go to the other bus loop, now some people are being told to go back to the first bus loop," she said.

The university said about 1,800 students were writing exams when the campus was closed.

– with files from CTV Vancouver



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