AACC officials have decided to cut the number of charter buses that take students between the east and west sides of campus from two to one.
The single bus will continue to run from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday but will stop at 4 p.m. instead of 11 p.m. on Saturday.
In an informal Campus Current poll of 50 students, 38 said they have not used the charter buses to get from the east to west sides of campus since the footbridge closed this summer.
Some students said they do not use the bus because they don’t have classes on West Campus. Others said they prefer to walk.
Griffin Hoskin, a third-year psychology student, said he uses the charter buses because they’re “convenient,” but suggested that adding more buses would be “more helpful.”
Ayod Shuford, a media production student, added that “their rotation time is a little off because when we leave out of, like, class and stuff, they’ll never be there. … [It’s] pretty inconsistent.”
Grant Rainey, a first-year psychology and music student, said a “visual, like, representation of when the times are that they’ll be at the specific spots” could help improve the charter buses.
Deneen Dangerfield, the dean of student development, said the buses were contracted on a month-to-month basis depending on feedback from students.
Dangerfield said the college previously changed the placement of where the bus stops are in response to student feedback.