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State and Local
Manager: Summer busing
jchaotic, unfair to students
partments limit A8cM shuttle bus service
Iby choosing whether to buy charter passes
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By Elisa Hutchins
Reporter
When (he spring semester ends,
thousands oi Texas A&M students
begin a mass exodus home for a
hiuch needed break, but thousands
dll stay for summer school.
Many of them will drive to cam-
bus, for only those who live in priv
ileged apartment complexes will be
[able to ride the shuttle bus during
summer sessions.
During fall and spring semesters,
buses run at approximately 15-min
ute intervals. Anyone can buy a pass
through the University for about
545 a semester.
Bus operations manager Doug
Williams said there aren’t enough
[students in the summer to justify full
[service.
“In order for there to be any serv-
kce at all for summer, bus operations
tffers charter service to apartment
complexes,” Williams said. “They
[pay us a lee and we will stop at only
their complex.”
Williams said there are no set
[rules for operating in (he summer.
JApartments can buy the service for
(their residents and can refuse to sell
(passes to individuals from other
[complexes.
In 1986, enrollment for the first
|summer term was close to 15,000,
Associate Registrar Donald D. Gar
ter said, and there were more than
13,000 students for the second term.
But because of expected enroll
ment increases, Carter said, there
will probably be more people this
summer.
Williams said only two shuttle bus
routes will be in operation this sum
mer. Parkway Circle and Plantation
Oaks apartments will have shuttle
buses running from 7:30 a.m. to 5
p.m. beginning June 8.
Nine other complexes will share a
route from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
These are: Longmire House, Yellow
House, Brazos House, Arbor
Square. Southwest v i 11 a er e
Brownstone, Sevilla, Scandia and
Pepper Tree apartments.
“I feel very strongly that
all the complexes should
serve other residents
equally and at least sell
summer passes. I live
across from Parkway Cir
cle, at Willowick Apart
ments, and I can’t get a
pass. ”
— Fransisco Letta, 1985
A &M gradua te
Students won’t be able to buy a
pass through A&M. All of the com
plexes on the 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
schedule will sell passes to residents
of any other apartments on the
route and their residents will get
tree service.
“The fee we charge to non-resi
dents will be based on our cost to
provide the service,” D.R. Cain
property manager Cynde Sikes said.
D.R. Cain, which owns Longmire
House, Yellow House and Brazos
House, and the owners of the other
complexes paid a combined total of
$5,000 for the service, Sikes said.
Plantation Oaks and Parkway Cir
cle, however, won’t sell passes to
non-residents.
“We will not sell or give passes to
anyone,” Parkway Circle apartment
manager B. Riley said. “It cost us
$5,000. This is a convenience for our
residents and not for everyone who
travels down Southwest Parkway. If
you don’t sign a lease either for sum
mer or during the reguler school
year, you can’t ride.”
There are several other apart
ments on Southwest Parkway that
didn’t buy shuttle service, so many of
their residents will have to find an
other way of getting to school.
“I feel very strongly that all the
complexes should serve other resi
dents equally and at least sell sum
mer passes,” 1985 A&M graduate
and A&M employee Fransisco Letta
said. “I live across from Parkway Cir
cle, at Willowick Apartments, and I
can’t get a pass.”
There are three other complexes
in the area near Parkway Circle, but
only one, Brownstone Apartments,
has purchased the shuttle service
and will sell passes. The other two
haven’t.
Williams said the summer system
is chaotic and unfair to residents
whose complexes don’t buy the serv
ice. But he claims there is nothing he
can do about it.
Shuttle buses operate on funds
from shuttle bus fees each semester,
as well as from money received from
student activity fees, said Howard S.
Perry, associate vice president of stu
dent services.
“During the summer we do con
tribute funds for inter-campus serv
ice, but we really aren’t that involved
in the process,” Perry said.
Brownstone manager Alda Shaw
said complexes that buy the service
should sell passes to non-residents.
“Since Parkway Circle isn’t selling, it
should help us make money by issu
ing passes to other students along
Southwest Parkway.”
Brian Banner, student body exec
utive vice president for school ad
ministration, thinks the University
should be more involved in summer
shuttle operation.
“Though I am not familiar with
this problem at the moment, I will
look into it,” he said. “Anyone
should be able to get a pass.”
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