UA shuttle buses

[ziptrumpet87]

as reported on AkronNewsNow.com and in the ABJ

[ZipAlumn]

I don't know if a shuttle bus will solve the parking problem at the university. It works better at Can't because the vast majority of the students live in the dorms and don't have cars on campus. The University of Akron is, was, and will be a "commuter college" and all those commuters need parking, whether on campus or off. Parking has always been a problem at the university, even back in the "horse & buggy days" when I attended.

[ziptrumpet87]

It'll sure help those who's dorms are at Quaker or the new apts on Main St. It may also help lessen the number of students crossing Exchange in haste by the new dorm.

[ZipAlumn]

It'll sure help those who's dorms are at Quaker or the new apts on Main St. It may also help lessen the number of students crossing Exchange in haste by the new dorm.

I agree that the dorm students would turn handstands on Mill Street waiting for those buses. What I am saying is that with the vast majority of students being "commuters", parking is a priority with them and thus should be with the university. I have changed my perspective over the years ... back when I lived in the residence halls (without a car), and read in the Buchtelite about the parking problem I used to laugh and say "screw 'em". Now with more gray in my hair and less rum in my belly I understand that this is a problem that can only be solved by pouring loads on money into parking lots instead of buildings, dorms, and salary increases, etc.

[ZippyRulz]

The shuttles are the obvious solution. Acquire cheap parking land a mile from campus, then students can hop on the shuttle and get dropped off at their classroom, door to door service. Cheaper than building a bunch of new decks and will work well for football games also. UA should be scooping up cheap foreclosure properties all around the city for future use...there's no way they can acquire enough space near downtown to accomodate the next wave of growth. We need to become a "distributed" campus given our unique situation. There also needs to be a zero tolerance crackdown on any crimes against UA students.