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Wednesday, August 23, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Lawrence, Kansas
Getting around Lawrence using thumb, bus or cab
Staff Writer
By STEVE RUNDQUIST
What do you do when you can't get to school because the weather is too miserable and your car is in the shop and you have a walk your foot and you can't walk very well?
You might call a cab, catch a bus, or if all you could you could take you chances hitting a raid.
Riding the buses is probably the easiest solution. The Lawrence Bus Company produces buses for many purposes.
The bus company is a private organization with the Student Senate, with no help from the city.
Student bus passes, which allow unlimited travel on the bus lines for one semester, may be purchased at the Student Senate office for $23.
This is an increase from last semester's price of $18. The student transportation fee, part of tuition payment, also will be increased from $1.80 to $3.50
Non-student passes will now cost $25, an increase of $5.
The single fare rate will remain at 25 cents per ride.
"The price increases will be used to cover the costs of additional services to be provided this fall." Phill Cobb, Student Senate Treasurer, said.
TWO MORE Dalary Hill runs and one additional route will be added to the service.
"It hasn't been definitely mapped out yet, but the new route will go to the Sixth and Florida streets area and North Lawrence," Cobb said.
The eight bus routes cover the most densely populated bus use areas of Lawrence, from downtown Lawrence to Dusy St. and Northwoodplexes with high concentrations of students.
Cobb said the Senate sold approximately
6,000 passes last year and collected $115,878.
Money from the sale of passes and the money collected from single farms is used to buy new machines.
"We get an average of $20,000 per semester from quarter fares." Cobb said.
The Senate pays the bus company $12.50 per bus hour for its services. A bus hour is defined as each hour a driver spends driving a route.
"IT'S MY OPINION that bus systems usually run better financially and physically and are in better shape if there is city help." Cobb said.
"The University of Iowa, for example, has city financial help and is able to run a full 24 hour schedule and its buses are in great shape," he said.
If you miss the bus and have a little extra change in your pocket, a call to the cab company is often necessary.
"The fare is about average for Kansas and a bit lower than the national average." Ward Thompson, vice president of the cab company, said.
Cab fare is 70 cents for the first one-
seventh mile and 10 cents for each addi-
tion.
"I don't foresee any fine increases in the near future, but that depends on the inflation rate," she said.
"The average response time is seven minutes." Thompson said, "though it may take us a little longer during rush periods like when school lets out."
"People should stop and think before hitchhiking or picking up hitchhikers. You just never know," Patroilman Randy Rock, Lawrence Police Department, said.
THE TAXI company will pick up
the ticket within a three-mile
radius of Lawrences.
Hitchhiking is another way to get to and classify the risks may outweigh the benefits.
"The law that states hitchhiking from the roadway is illegal. If the hitchhiker is in the street or causing a traffic hazard we'll probably arrest them and then them a notice to appear in court," he said.
The eabs run twenty four hours and can make campus stops and pick up at any
"GENERALLY, if the hitchkiller is on the other side of the curb and not in the street, then he must be arrested."
business or contributions from the occupants of any vehicle.
Section 69 of the Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas State states:
Rock said he would define "in a roadway" as being on the asphalt or cement portion of the road.
(a) No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride.
(b) No person shall stand in the highway for the purpose of soliciting employment,
It seems that the only thing harder to find than an empty parking place on a KU game day is an empty tennis court on a sunny day. And though it may come as a surprise to some frustrated tennis fans, there are 71 private tennis courts in Lawrence.
"I like anything else, it is a matter of discretion. There is a high incidence of hickhitters who are running from the law." He adds that he has hikers if we feel it's necessary," he said.
Rock said that stopping hitchhikers was the decision of individual police officers.
Hunting Lawrence tennis courts
The tennis courts on the KU campus are at three locations: Allen Field House, Memorial Stadium and Robinson Gym. The courts are concrete and have roton nets.
There is no posted time limit for play on any of the KU courts.
The largest group of tennis courts, 23, is found on the University of Kansas campus. It is also home to public school grounds and eight on the Haskell Indian Junior College campus. In addition to these courts, there are 11 private tennis courts, complexes and at Alvamar Country Club.
Tom Wilkerson, instructor of physical education at KU, said that it would be impossible to enforce any time limit without hiring supervisors or going to a reservation center. The cost of the cost more money than the department has to spend at this time, Wilkerson said.
The six courts at the field house are the best on campus. They have been painted recently and four of them are lighted. The varsity tennis teams have first priority on those courts, but KU students, faculty and staff may play on them at other times.
Allen Field House
Memorial Stadium
There are four unlighted courts on the south side of Memorial Stadium. The lines on all the courts are not very visible and the court is pooled and broken in many places.
Robinson Symphytism
There are 13 courts behind Robinson Gorman, and the remaining eight will have lighting by the end of the month, according to Wilkerson. The Student Senate supplied $17,500 last spring to light the courts.
Robinson Gymnasium
All courts at Robinson are reserved for physical education classes from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on weekdays, and the five lighted courts are reserved for the women's varsity tennis team from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on weekdays.
In addition to the tennis court, there are
hall courts and hard courts behind Robinson Gymnasium.
Bookstores compete for textbook sales
The Kansas Union Bookstore does not have a monopoly on textbook sales.
"We try to search out used textbooks," he said. "We give proportionally more money to students when we buy books back at the end of the year."
Bill Muggy, one of the two managers of the store, said that they have a greater market share.
"We try to do all we can for the student," Muggy said, "and we hope to have as complete a selection as the Union, except for a few isolated titles.
J. Hood Bookseller, 1405 Massachusetts St. offers paperbacks and hardcover textbooks priced from half to two-thirds of the original price.
Their stock of academic books includes 35,000 hardcover books and 40,000 paperback.
"We stock good solid academic reading in scholarly books. Chicky Hood, co-author of
The subjects cover history, philosophy,
the science, and western civilization,
among others.
The city and the school district have jointly built 10 tennis courts at Lawrence High School and the three junior high schools, Central, South, and West. These concrete courts have curbs around them so they are easily accessible to the skating in the winter. That procedure has taken its toll on some of the courts, leaving them cracked and pitted in places.
"Our stock is good solid reading," Mrs. Hood said.
Lawrence High School, situated at 19th and Louisiana streets, has four courts. The city has received a federal grant to renovate the existing courts, add four more and light them. The work should be completed by DeVictor, director of parks and recreation.
Lawrence High
The four existing courts are unlighted and reserved for the high school tennis team
Central Junior High
The Release
South Junior High
Central has two unlighted tennis courts at 14th and Massachusetts streets. Central students have priority on the courts during school hours. They are not allowed public any time the school is not using them.
These two tennis courts are located at 28th and Louisiana streets. They are unlabeled and reserved for the school tennis team from 3 to 15:30 p.m. on school days.
West Junior High
West has two courts at Yale and Schwartz roads. They are unaligned and reserved for the school tennis team from 3 until p.m. on school days from now until May 15.
Nine city-owned tennis courts are situated in five different parks. According to a Parks and Recreation Department policy, play on city courts must be limited to one hour when others are waiting, but none of the courts are supervised.
All of the city courts are lighted. The lights in all but one, the court in Edgewood Park, are activated by pressing a button. The lights are set to go off automatically at 9 or 10 p.m., but that time limit will be extended as the weather becomes warmer.
The Department of Parks and Recreation offers tennis classes at the city courts every summer and instructors have priority on the courts when their classes are in session.
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Centennial Park
This park, located at Sixth and Iowa
two recently painted courts with
nylon nets.
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Deerfield Park
The tennis court at this park at Maple and Brook lanes is prepared for double duty with the four basketball hoops that line the court. The light box must be opened to turn on the lights so you can do because it is heavily rusted. Directions on how to open the box are not posted.
There are two courts at this park, at Princeton Blvd. and Lawrence Ave. A separate basketball court is adjacent to the tennis courts.
Holcom Park
Holcom Park, west of Iowa on 25th, has the nicest court in Lawrence. Along the two courts are two stone practice or playgrounds. The tennis courts have been mated recently.
Veterans Park
Haskell Junior College
The two courts at Veterans Park, 19th and Louisiana, are ashphalt and have been painted, they are reserved for the team at High School. We learn from 3:00 to 3:30 on school days.
Haskell Indian Junior College, 2345 Barker Ave., has eight tennis courts on its campus. Only two of the courts are lighted. Haskell is the second priority on all courts then, in descending order, covets variety tennis, Haskell home to their families and finally, others.
Private Courts
The private tennis courts in Lawrence are available to residents at Meadowbrook, Trailrille, and Quail Creek apartments. The courts at Alvarnar Country Club require a membership fee and an additional fee for each hour of playing time.
1919 W. 24th