2 The Tar Heel Thursday. July 7. 1977
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By NANCY OLIVER
Managing Editor
Next year, owning a bus pass may not
guarantee a seat on the bus. In fact, it may
not even guarantee a bus. Rates on bus
passes will be cut in an effort to increase
ridership, but so might the number of buses
and the length of service.
The University's portion of the bus system
payment will probably remain at its 1976
level of 37.5 per cent, Vice Chancellor for
Business and Finance Claiborne Jones said
in a letter this week to Town Manager Kurt
Jenne.
Negotiations over who will contribute
how much to the Chapel Hill bus system
have been intensified by the letter.
Negotiations will probably continue for the
next couple of weeks.
By remaining at the 1976 level, the
University will decrease payment from its
S 366,000 last year, to S338,OQO for 1977-78,
according to figures that reflect the town's
reduction of bus service. .
By 1976-77, the University's portion of
the Town Transit system had reached 37.5
per cent, and we do not think it appropriate
for that percentage to be increased for 1977
78," Jones letter read.
Chapel Hill officials have been hopeful of
an increase in the University's payment after
a Chapel H ill-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce study showed that 90 per cent of
all bus riders have a UNC affiliation.
Alderman Ed Vickery favors a plan
whereby the University contributes at least
two-thirds of the transportation system's
deficit, the amount not taken care of by
University bus pass sales.
The University maintains that it is not a
partner in the Chapel Hill only a
consumer.
The University presently funds the U and
S bus routes entirely.
John Temple, of the UNC Business and
Finance Office, said, in an earlier interview.
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the amount it pa and should services be
cut, so should the funds.
Jones' letter to Jenne also says that,
according to the 1977-78 proposal, the
system's operations would be decreased by
20.5 per cent. During the regular semester,
service hours would be cut 6.7 per cent and
52 per cent during the summer.
Chapel Hill Mayor Jim Wallace and
Alderman Ed Vickery both decline to
comment on the situation until further
negotiations between the University and
town were possible.
UNC student body president Bill Moss
said Tuesday that once again the student
body had been forgotten.
"The University's stand at 37.5 per cent
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undermines the intent of the town. It also
undermines the students' attempts to get to
campus," Moss said.
"South Building the Administration is
not looking carefully at all the ramifications.
I'm more concerned with the level of service,
not the cost. They're more concerned with
the cost"
Student Transportation Board member
Paul A me agreed. "Students will have to
find another way to get to campus. They'll
try to get parking stickers which aren't
available either."
"Both the town and the University are
saving, I only want to pay so much. Both
are looking at the amount they have to put in
and both are considering reducing their
share of payment- They are not looking at
how much the service is needed," Arne said.
"Both feel that the service the bus system
provides is good but nobody is really willing
to pay for this service.
Getting rid of the bus system will cause a
lot of problems for the town. It will cause
parking problems, cut off the central
business district, and produce traffic
congestion," Arne said.
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