University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 18, 1990
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Saturday service may be canceled by bus company
By Tracey Chalpin Special to the Kansan
Saturday bus service from campus to shopping areas may vanish if KU on Wheels cannot continue to pick up the tab, the Lawrence Bus Company owner said yesterday.
Ridership records show that the Saturday routes are not cost effective, said Chris Ogle, owner of the Lawrence Bus Company. An average of 13 people board Saturday buses every hour. The weekday average for all routes is 65 an hour.
In Ogle's opinion, Saturday service would be cost effective if about 30 people boarded a single bus every hour.
So far this semester, KU on Wheels has paid $4,830 to the bus company to provide two Saturday routes: the campus to downtown route and the S.S. Beamer route, which runs from campus to 24th Street and Ridge Court with extensions to Wal-Mart and K mart
The Campus Transportation Board has authority to cancel routes.
MaryEllen Henderson, KU on Wheels coordinator, said that the transportation board had not discussed Saturday service since route hearings April 11. The decision would be reached, she said, at the board's next meeting on April 25.
For more than six years, operating costs for Saturday bus service to the downtown area were subsidized by the Downtown Lawrence Association. Ogle said. Riders also paid a fee.
In mid-October 1989, the association encountered financial problems, causing it to abruptly withdraw from a verbal agreement it had with the bus company, he said.
The Lawrence Bus Company continued the Saturday service for a couple of weeks because Ogle thought riders expected it. KU on Wheels had printed bus schedules including the Saturday route.
For the remainder of the Fall 1989 semester, KU on Wheels and the
'The general consensus of downtown Lawrence is that they support students and want them down there to shop, but they don't want to pay to get them down there.'
- Chris Ogle
Lawrence Bus Company owner
Lawrence Bus Company decided to split the cost of Saturday service.
In December, KU on Wheels agreed to subsidize the newly established southbound Beamer route and the downtown route for the Spring 1990 semester. Ogle said.
He said having two routes instead of one had made Saturday service more of a cost burden.
"I'm benefiting from the additional hours, but I cannot, in good conscience, recommend continuing it," he said.
Ogle said he was not satisfied with the effort the association had put into advertising the bus service.
The advertisements, paid for by the association, advertised KU on Wheels' involvement with transportation to the downtown area. Ogle said increased ridership, which did not occur, would have justified KU on Wheels' monetary support of the Saturday downtown service.
"The general consensus of downtown Lawrence is that they support students and want them down there to shop, but they don't want to pay to get them down there," Ogle said.
Ogle presented passenger count figures of both the Beamer and downtown routes at route hearings of the transportation board on April 11.
Charles Bryan, outgoing coordinator of KU on Wheels, said continuance of Saturday routes would not affect existing routes.
Lawrence company will get 100 jobs
By a Kansan reporter
A hospital supplies manufacturer will be moving 100 manufacturing jobs to its Lawrence plant by the end of the year.
Edward Kelly, vice president of the Rhode Island-based Davol company, said Kansas' lower wages and workers' compensation expenses would save the company about $600,000 a year.
The Lawrence plant, 700 East 22nd St., manufactures single-use medical supplies such as laboratory-collection devices. The plant now employs about 125 workers, said Dan Scheck, plant manager.
"We don't anticipate transfers. These will all be new jobs in Lawrence," he said.
Scheck would not speculate on whether more jobs would move from Rhode Island to Kansas.
The move will leave the Rhode Island plant with about 325 jobs.
"We're going to see how this step evolves," he said. "Product cost is always a consideration, and the company responds to changing needs."
Davol is a division of C.R. Bard, a medical supplies company based in Murray Hills, N.J. The Lawrence plant has been owned by Bard for about 25 years, but it became a component of Davol four years ago.
Bill Martin, Chamber of Commerce director of economic development, said lower electric rates and a highly productive work force were other reasons for the move.
He said Davol was working on a $6 million expansion plan for the Lawrence operation. In Fall 1989, he began his work in the land north of its established plant,
Buildings on the land are being developed because Davol requires more manufacturing space and larger sterilization facilities.
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