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THE UNIVERSITY HAILY KANSAN
MONDAY. MARCH 10. 2008
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currently the Naismith and Oliver Bus route. It would begin at GSP and run through campus to Oliver Hall. Then it would travel to the Campus Court at Naismith complex, before returning to GSP.
This route would be unlike the current Naismith and Oliver route, which turns around at 21st and Oushdahl Road instead and then returns to GSP. It would also cut out the downtown section of 24th and Ridgecourt's route. The Second and Michigan bus would travel downtown instead.
Margaret Mahoney, Colorado Springs law student, said she knew a lot of students and community members who rode the 24th and Ridgecourt bus downtown. She said changing the route would inconvenience them because they would have to pay another $1 to ride the Second and Michigan bus downtown if they did not have a pass.
Davis disagreed. She said transfer slips are available on the University's buses and students could transfer from one bus to another after paying the initial $1.
2ND AND MICHIGAN
This route currently has two buses and would continue to have two buses. The route travels from McCollum Hall to the Kansas Union, and stops at Hawks Pointe 1 and Highpointe Apartments. It then takes Sixth Street east to Michigan Street and travels north to Northwinds Apartments before returning to McCollum.
Next year, this route would begin at the Kansas Union and travel the downtown part of what used to be the 24th and Ridgecourt route before heading north on Kentucky Street and west on Sixth Street. It would then take Michigan Street north and turn around on Second Street, cutting Northwinds apartments out of its route. From Second Street, it would travel its old route back to campus until it reached Ninth Street. From there it would take Emery road to West Campus Road and proceed through campus back to the Kansas Union.
Emily Minion, Overland Park junior who lives at Northwinds Apartments, said she did not think students who lived at Hawks Pointe
1 and Highpointe Apartments would be happy with the route change. She said because the Second and Michigan bus would travel downtown, it could take students who lived at those complexes an hour to get home.
Davis said she thought getting students to class quickly was more important than getting them home quickly.
Jane Turner, Lawrence sophomore, who lives on the Second and Michigan route, said getting home in a timely matter is important to students who had jobs. She said she would rather miss a class or be late to class than to be late to work.
Minion said that if Northwinds Apartments were cut out of the new route she would have to walk about three blocks to the new stop. She said it would take the bus five extra minutes to stop at the apartments.
Aaron Quisenberry, associate director of the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, said he understood students' concerns, but that the commission had to eliminate stops that had low ridership.
"If you would chose to live at an apartment complex or a house
where there is no bus, you might have to make a tough decision to move to an area where a bus route might be more dependable," Quisenberry said.
Mahoney said she knew that the route changes would save the University money and that she would be tempted to not ride the bus if the proposed changes took effect.
"I'm not going to go spend $1,000 to move because you guys are going to change the route," Mahoney said.
NIGHT CAMPUS EXPRESS
The Night Campus Express route would no longer travel down Engel Road. In addition, it would no longer take Naismith Road directly to Campus Court at Naismith. The bus would no longer stop at the Student Recreation Fitness Center or Daisy Hill.
Davis said the commission did not want to get rid of the Night Campus Express bus even though it had low ridership because of safety concerns for students who take night classes.
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Davis said the Park and Ride bus would stop on Daisy Hill at the Lawrence Transit bus stop between Hashinger and Ellsworth Halls at night in place of the Night Campus Express. She said if students who lived in the residence halls on Daisy Hill wanted to take the Night Campus Express downtown they would have to transfer from Park and Ride to the Express at Bailey Hall.
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Students at the meeting were pleased with this change. Patyk said she agreed with it because she had never seen anyone get on the Night
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CONCLUSIONS
Vries said by eliminating stops and buses from other routes, the commission would be helping students by adding a bus to the Sixth and Crestline route.
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