The Camosun Express shuttle bus takes students between the two Camosun campuses (photo by Camosun College A\/V Services).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCamosun College Student Society external executive Rachael Grant is a Camosun student who relies on the shuttle bus; she says that although there is a public bus that services that route, the Camosun Express is a much easier way to get between campuses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe student society does a lot of advocacy around transit, and [the shuttle bus] has actually been one of our speaking points when we are lobbying for higher-quality transit for students,\u201d says Grant. \u201cOur transit system is lacking in ways that Camosun has stepped up, and [Camosun] created a bus to bridge that gap that should be filled by a public service but isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even though the shuttle offers an easy way to travel between campuses, Grant has noted how unused the service is at times.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s often a fairly empty bus,\u201d says Grant. \u201cThere are definitely students who regularly use it and benefit, so that\u2019s cool. I feel like if more people knew about it, they would use it. It\u2019s difficult to communicate to all students that this service exists, but I definitely see some folks using it on a fairly regular basis and benefiting because taking [BC Transit route] number 8 can be less convenient.\u201d<\/p>\n
This lack of ridership is not lost on Neu, who says she is working hard this year to get information about the shuttle bus out there to potential riders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, ultimately, what we want to do is have it being utilized by anyone who can use it, especially during those off-peak times,\u201d says Neu. \u201cIt would be great to have people realizing that it\u2019s there. I know that in the past, from what I\u2019ve heard, some people didn\u2019t know about it, so we are really wanting to get the word out.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s schedule has not been finalized, but Neu says that students, staff, and faculty will indeed again have the shuttle service to look forward to.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, it started in September and then went until the late spring and then just followed the Camosun calendar,\u201d says Neu. \u201cThis year, it will certainly be running in September; we\u2019re just finalizing times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since it launched in September of 2014, the Camosun Express has provided service to 17,439 riders, according to the college.<\/p>\n
General information on the shuttle and the finalized schedule, when it\u2019s ready, will be available at camosun.ca\/about\/transportation-parking\/camosun-express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past two years, Camosun College has provided a shuttle-bus service to students, faculty, and staff for access between the Lansdowne and Interurban campuses. It\u2019s the Camosun Express, and it\u2019s going to be up and running again in September. Camosun College Transportation and Parking operations assistant Darcy Neu says the shuttle-bus project was initiated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-august-10-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12296,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions\/12296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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