Tuesday, August 30, 2005
A task force for improving transit on campus is prepared to promote several different ways to improve the bus system on campus.
Danny Kaiser, chairman of the group and assistant dean of students, said the report would recommend three systems for buses: a system ran entirely by the University; a transit authority formed with representatives from students, the city and University; or a system contracting bus services from the city to expand and coordinate with KU bus routes.
The three recommendations are equally viable, Kaiser said.
The report also recommends the University hire a consultant to work with the task force on details of each of the plans.
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Scott McMahon, Omaha senior, waits for the bus outside of Murphy Hall last week.
Kaiser said members of the task force would vote on approving the recommendations this week.
The document will go to the Parking Commission and then to the provost and the chancellor.
Tom Mulinazzi, parking commission chairman and professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, said after seeing a draft of the report, the parking commission was unlikely to make changes.
“We probably could, but if we did, it’d be stupid,” Mulinazzi said. “It looks good to me.”
Anton Bengston, Salina junior and student member of the task force, said he had worked with the group to ensure that students wouldn’t lose authority over their bus system, KU on Wheels, and said he thought the task force had done a good job.
KU on Wheels is managed by the Student Senate Transportation Board and also has a student coordinator who manages day-to-day operations of KU on Wheels.
The task force on KU transit will be presenting three different recommendations to the Parking Commission and Provost to improve campus transportation. Here are the three choices:
- Maintain KU on Wheels as a completely separate campus transit system.
- Form a new transit authority that would have representatives from students, the city and the University
- Work with the city by contracting buses and coordinating routes to create a more unified system
Source: Task force chair Danny Kaiser
Lindy Eakin, vice provost of administration and finance, said the University should work to solve problems of campus transit before dealing with the possibility of merging with the city’s bus system.
With the future addition of parking on West Campus, Eakin said transit between there and main campus would become a larger issue.
Eakin said it would make sense to use city buses for routes that haven’t attracted many students to make the system more efficient.
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