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Commuteride offers Topeka bus service
By JENNIFER LISTON Staff Reporter
A Topeka's man is capitalizing on the high cost of fuel by offering a private bus service to Lawrence residents who work in Toopeka.
The bus service, Commuteride, is owned by Marc Dorsett, a Topeka school bus contractor. He said yesterday that he saw a need for a commuter bus service and filled it. The bus has been operating for two weeks.
Dorsett said that more than 200 Lawrence residents worked in state offices in Topeka. Those employees have a state-run van pool.
MANY MORE Lawrence residents work elsewhere in the Topeka area, or possibly said, and those are the commissioners is seeking to see his bar service.
The 45-passenger bus is similar to a Greyhound coach, he said, except it doesn't have a restroom.
Dorsett said that by offering the bus service he wanted to make a profit as well as conserve energy.
"Basically, I had an opportunity to benefit people and to make money," he said. "I'm definitely in it for the money."
Dorsett said he did not know how much profit he was making from the
service, but he expected to make more as ridership increased.
Dorsett's brown and tan bus gets from 10 to 12 miles per gallon. Commuters pay $16 a week for the daily 70-mile round trips to Topeka. That represents a substantial savings over what commuters would pay for driving in New York City or gas about $30 a week for gas alone. Dorsett said.
"People will realize, 'Hey, I can't drive it for this price,'" he said.
The bus leaves 23rd and Louisiana streets in Lawrence at 6:50 a.m. and leaves Topeka at 5:10 p.m.
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"We feel the response has been very enthusiastic." he said.
Dorsett said he was pleased with the response to his service, although the
bus has averaged only six passengers a day
Dorsett said he was not trying to compete with a van pool operated for state employees who live in Lawrence.
There are three state vans traveling to Topeka daily.
Dorsett he hoped to attract more
passengers and by passing
out passengers in Two Towns.
About 55 state employees use the state van service and pay about $30 a month for office service, said Harad Gibbon, an assistant director of accounts for Kansas.
if the Lawrence-to-Topeka bus line makes money, Dorsett said, the service will be expanded to other towns near Topeka.
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Coming soon to Watson: more crash, bang, thud
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
The first floor of Watson Library is empty- almost.
"My own feeling is that we're sort of in between phases," John Glinka, associate dean of libraries, said Wednesday.
Phase one of the library renovation has been finished, and phase two has begun-almost.
He said the second phase of the renovation, remodeling the first floor and the main entrance of Watson, was not ready to be started because the library's administrative offices still were on the first floor.
The renovation of the permanent third-floor home for the offices will not be finished for two or three weeks, Glinka said.
The periodicals reading room and the reading areas on first floor were moved to the basement last week in preparation for phase two. In addition, the main front doors were closed and part of the front of the library was fenced off so the front stairs could be remodeled.
The west doors of the library will be
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Although parts of the first floor were moved on Nov. 1 instead of Oct. 1 as originally scheduled, Glinka said he
wasn't sure that renovation was behind schedule.
"I don't know. There are different philosophies on this," he said.
He said that first-floor work was behind schedule, but that renovations of lounges in the basement and sub-basement were ahead of plans.
The first phase of the renovation may have been the most difficult one, Glinka said, and the rest may be completed faster.
Glinka said everything on first floor would be redone.
Phase one of the renovation consisted of plumbing and electrical work, remodeling of the basement, the subbasement and parts of the third floor.
"It'll be stripped right down to the concrete," he said. "They're going to go back to the basic structure and start over again."
Phase two calls for revision of the lighting, insulation, electrical systems in the building.
New wiring and a sprinkler system will be installed on the first floor and the administrative office walls will be toppled. Glinka said.
The first floor of Watson will house the reserve reading room, a smoking room at the residence, reserve and circulation offices. Residence services when phase two is finished.
Glinka said the floor was scheduled to be reopened in March.
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