Cardinal Points

Issue date: 11/3/06 Section: News

Media Credit: Ryan Hayner SA Vice President for Finances Andre Marshall

The late-night shuttle sponsored by the Student Association is temporarily being stopped.
According to Alissa Cody, SA vice president for services, only about 10 or 11 people signed up for the late-night shuttle. She said this was extremely low and did not meet the SA's expectations.
In order to use the shuttle, students had to buy a $10 pass from the Angell College Center main desk. To board the shuttle, students had to show their Cardinal Card.
Each student who paid the $10 fee will be refunded, Cody said.
Students pay a $70 SA fee each semester but this only includes the daytime shuttle bus.
An SA shuttle runs during the day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The late-night shuttle was added for those who wanted to go see a late-night movie, do some late-night Wal-Mart shopping or those who wanted a ride home from downtown.
It ran from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.
She said the drivers weren't enforcing the need for a pass as much during the middle part of the semester.
"I'm disappointed it didn't work out the right way," she said.
As of right now, Cody said, it's not financially possible to bring the shuttle back.
Andre Marshall, SA vice president for finance, and Michael Cashman, SA president, said it could return this semester if the shuttle finances are solved.
Marshall said organizations have come to him since the temporary stoppage of the late night shuttle about helping out, but said he couldn't specifically mention what organizations.
The SA is working on writing grants in order to make the shuttle a free service for students, Cashman said.
The SA Senate voted last Wednesday to temporarily stop the shuttle. It doesn't close out the possibility of bringing it back this semester but what it means, according to Cashman, isthat no promises are madee that the shuttle will return next semester.
"We need to find the right funding sources," he said.
Cody said she would like to see it back for safety reasons and for those students who work late-night jobs.
The company in charge of driving the late-night shuttle was First Transit, Inc.
The drivers were given $50 an hour, Marshall said.

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