UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 19, 1992
7E
Stephen Pingry / KANSAN
Craig Springer, mechanic for Lawrence Bus Company, replaces the fuel filter on a 1967 GMC Urban Coach bus. The Lawrence Bus Company owns buses ranging in age from 17 to 33. They are serviced every evening.
KU on Wheels provides a ride up the Hill has survived discontinuation and scandal
OTerrilyn McCormick Special to the Kansan
University of Kansas students have always had the need for transportation up and down the Hill. In 1910 a streetcar system provided all students with affordable transportation to and from class.
More than 80 years later, KU on Wheels strives to meet that same goal, said Chrisy Kaiser, Student Senate coordinator of transportation.
"KU on Wheels offers an affordable and safe way to get around campus, and it is accessible throughout Lawrence," she said.
Thirty-three percent of the service's cost is subsidized by student activity fees, the rest comes from the sale of student bus passes.
This fall, bus passes cost $45. They are available in the Kansas Union during fee payment and in the business of the Kansas Union throughout the semester.
Last fall, KU on Wheels sold 7,500 student bus passes and served 1,500 riders a day, Kaiser said.
The fleet of 26 buses used an average of 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel a day.
The campus bus service has not always been so successful. In its 82-year history it has faced discontinuation and scandal.
and ran from 6 a.m. to 1:30 the next morning, said Chris Ogle of the Lawrence Bus Company.
In 1957, Rapid Transit Inc., the bus company that provided service for Lawrence and the University, discontinued service because of financial trouble. KU bought out the University route, known as the Campus Express.
McMurray was caught after a check to Student Senate bounced.
In 1982, the largest amount of money ever embezzled from Kansas state funds was taken by the Senate coordinator of KU on Wheels, Steve McMurry. McMurry, an art history student, skimmed more than $200,000 from the KU on Wheels account by depositing checks for bus passes into a personal account.
He was convicted on five counts of embezlement, served 17 months in prison and finished parole in 1988. During parole, he paid back about $40. He is living in Colorado and is paying back the balance of the money.
Those pale green buses
This fall, bus passes cost $45 for students. They are available in the business offices of the Kansas and Burge Unions throughout the semester.
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Source; Chrisry Keiser, Student Senate coordinator of transportation Sean M. Tevis/ KANSAN
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