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news
Town Council
hears debate
on lake, buses
By Jon Pope
The Chapel Hill Town Council heard
reactions, to their decisions affecting the
bus service and Clearwater Lake at a public
hearing Monday night.
Many of the more than 100 people who
filled the Municipal Building meeting
room voiced concern over the higher bus
pass prices and a proposed cutback in bus
service authorized by the council.
"Student government recognizes your
need to raise prices, said Bob Saunders,
UNC student body president. "But we urge
you to reconsider your resolution of last
week which raised prices 62 percent."
Saunders said the sharp price increase
was too sudden and asked for the council's
support in getting the largest possible
discount on passes for University students.
"Students need to hae the lowest prices
possible or they will re-evaluate whether to
use the buses."
Other arguments against bus service
included proposals to discontinue routes
with low ridership. Users of the threatened
v A and N routes offered ridership data and
petitions to the council, supporting the
routes. They also asked for improved and
extended service. '
The council heard reactions to the
proposed purchase of Clearwater Lake
from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA as a
town recreation facility.
Acquisition of the lake, located south of
Chapel Hill, was supported by citizens
such as Lisa Slatt, who said she was
concerned about maintaining public
access to recreational facilities.
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"Lake Clearwater presents a good
opportunity for the town of Chapel Hill to
provide nearby, cheap recreation to
residents," Slatt said.
Don Bailey, a resident living near the
lake, said he opposed purchasing the site
after observing "traffic, trash and
trespassing, which have increased since the
lake has become popular."
Bailey said the additional cost caused by
these problems must be considered along
with the need for acquiring public access to
the lake.
The public hearings brought comments
on other topics such as funding for local
human service agencies, the North
Carolina Botanical Gardens,, and the
Animal Protection Society. The council
also heard resident proposals for extending
the Airport Road bike path past Estes Drive
and keeping regular Sunday hours at the
town library.
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By Galareh Asayesh
, ChapelHill Town Manager Gene Shipman
. has recommended that the University not offer a
.discount price for the town transportation
system's bus passes to students.
But the town Transportation Board, in a
Tuesday night meeting, recommended to the
Chapel Hill Town Council that a discount be
I allowed.
' This comes after the Campus Governing
Council's resolution disapproving of the 62.5
percent increase in bus pass prices.
If the price increase is not changed, the CGC
will concern itself with assuring that a student
discount will be obtained by UNC. In past years
the discount, negotiaged between UNC and the
town, usually has been 10 percent. ,
"Everyone concerned is going to have to make
clear the advantages of a bus pass vs. a parking
permit," Student Body President Bob Saunders
said. "It's Student Government's responsibility,
the town's responsibility and the University's
responsibility."
The CGC is at present registering its concern
publicly, Saunders said. "We want to get them
(the town) to reconsider. . . and we're trying to
keep the issue visible. The Transportation
Board's approach is much more cautious and
in our opinion much more sensible." .
Thursday's (CGC) resolution said that
student body president had not been informed
that the bus pass issue a last minute addition to
the Town Council's agenda was to be
discussed at the council's May 26 meeting.
The CGC asked the town to reconsider the
increase, which sets the cost of a 9-month bus
pass at $65 $11 higher than an on-campus
parking permit.
Bob Saunders called the price raise "a lisky
venture," saying that bus passes had never before
cost more than parking permits valid for the
same period of lime.
Saunders predicted a decrease fn the number
of bus passes sold, due to the sharp price
increase, and asked that the price increase be
eased in over a period of two years.
"Even though these price increases are
nesessary, we need to let them (students) react to
it in an orderly fashion. (A more gradual
increase) will give the students more time to
adjust." Saunders said.
Before the Town Council meeting May 26, at
which the 62.5 percent increase was passed, the
CGC had declared itself in favor of a price
increase recommendation made by the
Transportation Board. That recommendation
suggested a 39.5 percent price increase in the cost
of the nine month passes. The Town Council
passed the larger increase, which had been
recommended by the town manager.
Increasing personnel and fuel costs must be
taken into account, said Bill Callahan,
administrative assistant to the transportation
department.
"The cost of diesel fuel rose about 100 percent
last year and there has been another increase this
year," he said. "Everywhere we look there are
increases."
Callahan said that if the necessary price
increase was not made this year it would have to
be compensated for the following year. "The
people in the transportation department here are
very thorough in investigating the options open
to them."
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Police officers Kenny Rogers of
Hillsborough Road and Lorenzo J. Glenn
of University Garden Apartments received
minor injuries when their police cars
collided Tuesday.
The vehicles crashed at the intersection
of Church and Rosemary Streets at 4:45
p.m. Both officers were responding to a
fight reported on Pritchard Avenue.
Both policemen were treated -and
released at N.C. Memorial Hospital
following the accident.
Police Department Captain Charlie
Edmonds said the two cars approached the
intersection from different directions and
collided there.'
Edmonds said that both vehicles' lights
and sirens were on, and one of the drivers
ran a red light at the intersection. Neither
driver ha been charged, and the
investigation of the accident is continuing.
Both cars, one of which was about one
month old, were heavily damaged.
The accident backed up rush hour traffic
on Rosemary Street to Henderson Street.
Two ambulances, four police cars, and a
rescue squad unit went to the scene to
assist.
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