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£15 System offers parking option )wn heif ield, says potenliil d), wc’vei inebacltri hat hast id is their By KARI FLUEGEL Staff Writer In an effort to relieve some of the parking and traffic congestion on campus, a new Park and Ride system will oe introduced this fall. Students, faculty and staff will be able to park in the Olsen Field park ing lot and ride an intracampus shuttle to the main campus free of charge. About 1,200 parking spaces are available near Olsen Field. Those parking at Olsen Field will be required to have a remote lot parking permit on their cars which costs $15 a year. “It’s a good buy for the con sumer," Bill Conaway, staff assistant of bus operations, said. Conaway will oversee the operation of the Park and Ride program. Students’ parking stickers, based on a nine-month school year, will cost $63 for dorm students with 60 hours or more and all female dorm students and $45 for day students with 60 hours or more and all other students except female dorm stu dents compared to $15 for a remote lot sticker. Remote Parking stickers will be sold only to students who live off campus. On-campus students will not be able to use the remote lots. “I think the University is heading in the right direction,” Conaway said. Conaway said he would like to see the park and ride program ex panded to eventually result in a closed campus. Bus operations will run the bus service. Enforcing the parking and traffic regulations will be under the jurisdiction of the University police. Shuttle runs will begin today (Aug. 27). The shuttle busses will run on three different routes — the Express Run, the Academic Run and the Rudder Run — each taking passen gers to different areas of campus. The Express Run will have only two stops. Shuttles will leave Olsen Field and travel down Beef Cattle Road to Agronomy Road to Univer sity Drive. It will stop at the Blocker Building and the Engineering Re search Center. The shuttle will re turn the same way. The Express Run is designed to carry large numbers of students quickly to the Blocker Building and the Engineering Research Center. Express busses will run from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and from 3 to 6 p.m. All other shuttle runs will be in opera tion from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Academic Run will leave Ol sen Field and travel to the campus via Old Main and Houston. The shuttle will cross to Jones street at the fountain and run east on Ross Street to Bizell. It will return to Ol sen Field via University Drive and Agronomy Road. Rudder Run will leave Olsen Field and travel on Joe Routt to Coke Street. The shuttle will then turn north onto Lubbock Street, travel down Lubbock to Bizell Street and from Bizell, head south on Lamar Street to Nagle Street. The Shuttle will then travel around to Lamar Ex tension (the street between the phys ics building and the Trigon) and west on Joe Routt back to Olsen Field. The shuttles will operate at 10 to 12 minute intervals. Passengers on the Academic and Rudder runs will be able to board and disembark at stop signs. “We want to make it an efficient people mover,” John Lake, bus op erations manager, said. Twelve additional buses will be added to the fleet to service the park and ride program. Ten of the busesl will be the smaller 26-passenger shuttles and two will be the 46 pas senger busses to service the Express Run. PARK and RIDE EXPRESS RUN: Olsen Field to main campus via University Drive. Stop one is Blocker Building. Stop two is Engineering Research Center. Return to Olsen Field, same route. Buses run from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a m. and 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ACADEMIC RUN: Olsen Field to main campus via Old Main to Houston, Jones (at fountain) across to Ross. East on Ross to Bizzell stop. 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