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U-ljp lattg (Ear Hrrl Group considers move to RDU BY JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ UNIVERSITY EDITOR Some Medical Air Operations users say driving to Raleigh- Durham International Airport would be a potentially crippling roadblock for the service. Med Air, based at Horace Williams Airport and a part of N.C. Area Health Education Centers, allows doctors to travel across the state to treat patients, perform out reach and teach medical students. But despite hard numbers that aim to quantify the impact of the move, it will be impossible to deter mine the scale of a change until it happens, said Tom Bacon, AHEC program director. “It’s kind of a hypothetical ques tion until we say ... your flights are now going to leave from here instead of here,” he said. A comprehensive analysis by Talbert & Bright, an aviation plan ning consulting firm contracted by the University to study relocating the program, showed there were a total of 693 Med Air users from March 2003 to February 2004. The number of flights per year for those users varies from 441 users who took only one flight to one user who flew 48 times. Those users would experience an increase of travel time by 15 to 25 minutes if they drove from UNC Hospitals to RDU. The study concluded that the 54 frequent Med Air users those who travel at least seven times per year would experience a total 654 hour increase in travel time resulting in $46,400 per hour more in hourly wages. Following a formal presentation of the data at the UNC Board of I Loveit ! 5 OR Heave it. \ IpggMgmj MAIN STREET, GATEWAY TO CARRBORO • 929-6222 8! 1 BROAD STREET, DURHAM • 416-1066 3106 HILLSBOROUGH STREET, RALEIGH • 829-0230 The UNC General Alumni Association has many activities planned for your first few weeks on campus. Stop by and see us at any or all of these GAA activities. Friday, Beach Bash August (with Orientation) 26 8:30—10:30 p.m., Ehringhaus Field Lawn Free Jimmy John's, music and beach-inspired fun. 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General /\ i_ u m n i association ‘ISM —— sSP rjß f £ j. £ “-■3*** HSU * „ _ DTH FILE/ISAAC SANDLIN Passengers walk towards their plane on the morning of June 1 at the Horace Williams Airport. Area Health Education Centers is planning to move to RDU if the airport closes to make way for Carolina North. Trustees meeting May 26, several trustees remarked at the relatively small number of users. “It’s been enlightening to see how few people would be inconve nienced by relocation,” TVustee Tim Burnett said at the meeting. But some members of the flying minority said moving the program would be more than an inconve nience. “It would be a devastating effect,” said Bill Henry, chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology.. “I think the people that lose are the people of North Carolina.” Welcome Back He said his department logs 6,000 Med Air flights per year, most ly to Wilmington and Fayetteville. Henry said Med Air provides an invaluable service and a move would compromise its effectiveness. Bacon also is worried that doctors won’t be able to offer their clinics. AHEC officials will work to alle viate these concerns. “We’re going to work closely with the faculty to find out how fitjb Due to building renovations, fl we’ve temporarily JJf relocated to the f tJrOWI Tan Your Hide 1 | t j at 15-501 S. & Smith Level Rd. $lO OFF any package with Student ID expires 9/30/05 919-933-2117 Open 7 days a week during peak season we can make sure they can still participate,” he said. He suggested providing a van service to RDU or offering finan cial incentives to departments. “What we have committed to is to put in place whatever is necessary to make sure we continue to provide the services across the state.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. BEFORE YOU LOAD UP ON PIZZA, DVDS AND MP3S, LOAD UP YOUR UNC ONE CARD ACCOUNT. 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To opm a Wachovia Fpm Student Checking Account, stop by a Wachovia FlnancM Cantor, cal 800-WACHOVIA (822-4884) or visit wachovla.com/lreestudeittcliecklne. mcHom Uncommon Wisdom *For detailed transfer instructions, pick up a Funds Transfer Brochure from the Wachovia Service Center in the Pit or the UNC One Card Office. ©2004 Wachovia Corporation 043115 SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2005 Group offers alternate Carolina North plans BY KATHY CHO STAFF WRITER Seventeen thousand versus 5,845. That’s the number of parking spaces in Carolina North proposed by the University compared to that of a local nonprofit group. The Village Project, a group that promotes ecologically sustainable communities, presented in July its alternate concept plan to the University’s design for its proposed satellite campus. James Carnahan, the organiza tion’s chairman, said the University should envision Carolina North “not just as a technology transfer campus but also as a great sustainable land use plan.” A major difference between the group’s proposal and the University’s current plan is the use of electricity powered light-rail transit The group suggests installing transit lines that would thread through campus, connecting at either end with bus routes on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and the existing railroad along Seawell School Road. The current UNC plan does not include light-rail transit. The rail system could be built between 2018 and 2030 with funding and commit ment, Village Project board member Patrick McDonough said. Rail transit is only one way of less ening dependency on cars. “There’s no silver bullet here,” McDonough said, adding that a number of ini Herpevac m '.y ■ Volunteers Needed jg UNC is looking for women between the ages of 18 and 3D with no history of oral or genital’ herpes to- paricipafe in a vaccine study to prevent herpes. r ; C ■ vlfe/• 1 * \ •yjjlr wtKia& '' it you qualify, you will receive free screening tests for herpes ' ' ' for More Information Call, _ . ( 919-843-3174 in Chapel Hill UNC 919-788-5333 in Raleigh _ datives such as van pooling, creating new park-and-ride lots, restricting on-campus parking and increasing housing would be required to create a synergy effect. The 8,000 on-campus residences proposed by the group are another of its more visible departures from the UNC plan, which calls for 1,800. Another feature of The Village Project’s proposal is the Horace Williams Rainbank, a rainwater reservoir filled with water harvested from rooftops that would double as a recreational area. Group members said they have worked on this plan since last July and have sought to reflect the con cerns raised by nearby existing neighborhoods. The group presented its sugges tions to University officials in July. Tony Waldrop, UNC’s vice chancel lor for research and economic devel opment, said in an interview on June 27 that the suggestions on light-rail transit were especially interesting. “We will look at the ideas they pre sented and see which are viable.” Waldrop had reservations about some other proposals, such as the possibility of cutting parking spaces to fewer than 6,000 while increas ing housing units to 8,000. “That’s less than one parking space per household.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. 7
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