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Wednesday, July 27, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Students to absorb increased bus costs
By Lisa Sheikh
Kansan staff writer
Students at the University of Kansas pay for the campus bus system regardless of whether they ride the bus.
And when the cost of riding goes up, as it will this fall, it's the students who must foot the bill.
Six dollars from every student's activity fees is allocated to the bus system each semester. And the price of one-time fares and campus bus passes will increase in August.
None of KU's university has a bus system run almost entirely on student funding like KU's.
The peer institutions are universities similar in size, scope and mission to KU.
Of the five peers, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Colorado do not have bus systems. The University of Oregon will begin a bus service this fall, but plans to operate strictly on allocations from student activity fees. The University of North Carolina and the University of Iowa have bus systems partially supported by federal and state grants. The KU bus system turned down such an opportunity three years ago.
seen an opportunity later in the day. Lawrence Cus. owner Chris Ogle said that rejecting outside help was not the cause of the increase in campus bus rates this Fall.
Because of a deficit of about 7,000 each of the past three years, the student transportation board, which operates the campus bus system, KU on Wheels, is raising the price of bus passes from $30 to $55 and cash fares from 50 to 75 cents. In 1985, the city of Lawrence and the bus company refused a capital grant of $472,000 from the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
Orale said the bus company, which contracts with
Price of riding bus jumps to 75 cents
KU on Wheels to supply bus service, refused assistance because it would not have benefited KU or the bus company.
"We would have newer equipment and newer buses, and everybody would have a seat, maybe, but it would not have been cost-effective," Ogle said.
He said the capital grant would have brought with it federal and state regulations that would have hindered, rather than improved, the bus system.
For instance, he said, KU on Wheels would have been required to serve parts of Lawrence where there were no students. The federal government would have regulated the buses' routes and times. In addition, the bus company would have confronted costly red tape, Ogle said.
At Iowa, where federal and state assistance has been accepted, students pay 32 percent of the bus system's operating costs. The school receives federal support from the Urban Mass Transportation Administration and state transit assistance
Brian McClatchey, manager of Iowa's bus system, called Cambus, said the system operated on $850,000 in 1988. Students paid $460,000 of that, entirely out of mandatory student fees. The students paid $8.20 each semester for bus transportation, regardless of whether they used the system, but rides were free.
McClatchey said Cambus was owned and oper
McClatchey said Cambus was required to open its records each year to state and federal inspection and to work with state and federal agencies on planning of routes and fares.
ated by the university.
At North Carolina, where the budget is $3 million, 35 percent of the bus system's cost is paid for by user fees, some student and some non-student. None of the money comes from student activity fees.
The bus system in North Carolina is much more extensive than KU's or Iowa's, as it serves two cities and has a number of off-campus routes.
Scott McCiellan, manager of the North Carolina bus system, said students could pay for bus service in several ways. They can pay 25 cents for a ride on campus and 50 cents off campus or they can buy a 40-route ticket for $17, a year's worth of on-campus service for $67.50, or a year's worth of off-campservice for $135.
The rest of North Carolina's financing comes from the local and federal governments.
By contrast, KU on Wheels, which last year operated on $890,000, gets money from student activity fees and charges for bus passes and individual fares. The bus system's only other source of income is advertising on the sides of the buses, which Ogle said was minimal.
Scott Russell, coordinator of KU on Wheels, said the bus company billed the University each month according to the number of hours it operated. The bus company charges the University $23 an hour. Ogle said that amount included drivers' wages of
Ogle said that amount included drivers' wages o.
$4.50 to $6.00 an hour, fuel and insurance.
Russell said KU on Wheels was having to add some hours because of enrollment increases.
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