Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Working with the city of Lawrence, the University of Kansas has hired a consulting firm to analyze and improve the city’s two major bus outlets, KU on Wheels and the Lawrence Transit System.
Daniel K. Boyle, president of Dan Boyle & Associates, hosted the first of five public meetings at City Hall and a meeting at the Kansas Union last week to get a feel for how both the city and those affiliated with the University – students and faculty – felt the two systems could be improved.
After the study is completed, the project will go through two phases, Boyle said at the meetings. The first will be the “standard transit project,” intended to make the overall transit situation in the city better. The second phase will see if it would be possible to intertwine both systems to function as one unit.
Boyle said that while he was trying to gain a sense of what the most important issues were regarding both systems, he couldn’t yet tell if the public wants to integrate the systems.
Robbie Myles, Olathe senior, said that change was needed. Myles, who lived at Parkway Commons, Clinton Pkwy and Kasold, last year, didn’t own a car at the time and said he experienced problems with the current bus system.
“When I rode the ‘t’ I had to catch two buses to get where I needed to go,” Myles said of the city transportation system,
He said that it often would take him 30 minutes to catch a ride to campus, taking a bus from his apartment complex to SuperTarget, and then transferring to another bus to get to campus. He also said that he would have liked the buses to run later than they did.
A lack of later running times was just one of the complaints expressed by meeting participants. Others included routing, accessibility for those with disabilities, timing for transfers, uncleanliness and both environmental and noise pollution.
Lawrence Settles, Shawnee senior, who attended the meeting at City Hall, said he was happy that people were trying to improve the bus systems.
“I’m an advocate for public transportation,” he said.
Boyle’s firm specializes in public transportation, and has completed studies in other college towns. He did one study at the University of Nevada at Reno, and will be conducting another that will serve six universities in Greensboro, N.C. The current study began last week and is scheduled to end some time in November.
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