I was extremely happy when I heard about GetGo coming to my neighborhood. But then I asked myself,…read more"almost every GetGo is huge, accommodates at least 12 cars comfortably and has a really good super center." That's where the problems really are.
The access to this gas station has always been laughable. One of the biggest intersections in Squirrel Hill and you need to plan ahead (depending on the time of day) on how the hell you're going to get in there. But once you do, oh the humanity!!!!
With a whopping 9 pumps in a very intimate setting, you'll be lucky to find a pump in the middle of the day or well after rush hour (good time to go: 3:00am). so you wait your turn, in the direction you arrived, and then the party begins...or nightmare!
Cars attempting, hilariously, time consuming 3-point turns. People beeping and hanging out their window pointing at soon-to-be-empty spaces, praying for dibs on it. Drivers finally getting a space and then, "oops, my tank is on the other side" wash, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.
Whew!!!...But wait they have a "store". It is small, crowded, brings (non-driving) customers of the street to walk casually around the stating continuing to inhibit any form of a viable system. Cashiers are okay, and I couldn't and wouldn't ever do that job.
Leaving is just as hard. After you white knuckled the pump so it can go "faster" (because understand, I you leave your car for any reason or show that you are not doing your best to hurry up, you will become a pariah, and other drivers give no sympathy.
Personal note: Last week, from entrance to egress, I kid you not, I took the better part of 25 minutes to fill my tank up and pay at the pump.
The good: Free air (thank you GetGo sooo much, free freaking air) and it is a Get Go so you can use your advantage card.