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April 24, 2014 • Issue no. 58 Volume 26
Boise, Idaho
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Campus Shuttle
Changes to shuttle services soon to come Eryn Johnson Staff Writer
The Boise State shuttle transports students from building to building rain or shine. In the last 10 years shuttle driver Ronald Mowry has seen some significant changes to the system and he's about to see some more. Every few years the shuttle program gets a little different, whether it is the route that changes or the shuttles themselves. Mowry currently drives one of the buses chartered through the Caldwell Transportation department but has driven the Boise State shuttle route for 10 years and can speak to the trends of shuttle riders. "I see about 125 to 135 (riders) a day,” Mowry said. “A good day is 180.” Shuttle usage increases when the weather is poor but remains around the 200 riders per shuttle mark. The Department of Transportation and Parking is looking to make changes that will increase ridership. The shuttles currently operate for 24 hours a day. This week last year, the shuttle service served over 1,100 students, a hefty number, but Nicole Nimmons, executive director of Transportation and Park-
ing Services, thinks that some changes can be made to increase ridership. “We’re going to be doing something completely different," Nimmons said. “We’re going to be leasing some larger buses and then we have our five buses and we’re going to have all of those wrapped.” According to Nimmons, the wrap plan will change the design of the bus. They will be wrapped in orange, blue and silver to coordinate with the routes. Currently there are two routes in place, the orange route that rounds Boise Avenue and heads to Park Center. The blue route heads westbound down University and eastbound up Cesar Chavez Lane, doing a loop around campus. Part of the new plans will add a third route, silver, that will travel from a new park and ride being built off of Vista Avenue. The silver route will also add new stops downtown. “We have our park and ride going in between the Super 8 and the Holiday Inn; it’ll be about 130 parking spaces,” Nimmons said. The park and ride will open mid fall. In addition to the new route, Transportation and Parking will be discontinuing Caldwell Transportation services and will be
updating the mobile app. “We have a mobile app currently that we will be making digital enhancements to,” Nimmons said. “People can follow our shuttles currently live off of our website link.” Nimmons’s goal is to make the shuttle map more user-friendly and ultimately develop a ‘check-in’ feature that would allow students to alert drivers they are at a particular stop or signal the drivers to wait. Many of the riders use the website and ride the shuttle daily. One such rider is Kenzie Stallings, junior geology major. "I use the shuttle everyday a couple of times a day," Stallings said. "It's a lot easier to get across campus." Stallings usually catches the shuttle at the Environmental Research Building and rides to the Morrison Center, two buildings on opposite sides of campus. "It's really convenient," Stallings said. "But I think it would be nice to have (more) shuttles run down the other side of University.” Transportation and Parking is looking for more feedback from students. They will be hosting a survey online and will be offering comment cards on the shuttle as the semester draws to a close. page Design Megan Nanna/THE ARBITER
Commuters given something to look at Student art is displayed in the stairwells of Brady Parking Garage Patty Bowen Staff Writer
Dressing up the northeast Brady Parking garage stairway, 14 panels are labelled throughout the levels with the caption Garage Art, and include a plea for artist submissions. Opening this Friday, April 25, the Garage Art Exhibit will showcase work by 13 different Boise State artists for photography, story stories and painting. The idea for the garage art stemmed from Nicole Nimmons, executive director of Transportation and Parking Services, and was enhanced by Peter Kutchins, Sign Shop,
and Karissa Sutton, event parking. “I’m really excited to get the art students out of those PAAW buildings and those dingy hallways because very rarely do students go through those hallways and actually see the potential of the Boise State students. It’s a very exciting thing to get them into the public eye,” Sutton said. “Their exposure is amplified by being put into those garages.” The exhibit will be up from April 25 until October 2014. New students’ works will be cycled in every semester and the Garage Art team is plan-
ning on slowly expanding their area, although currently, plans have been made to add four more frames for next semester’s Garage Art contest. “A lot of my work is about fleeting moments in time, so capturing things that eventually will be gone,” said Tiffany Bingham, a senior in photography and one of the photographers whose work will be exhibited in the garage. Her piece “Morning Frost” is a beautiful picture of a delicate branch with hair-like frost reaching from it. “The way the frost had formed on the object really captured my attention. It had
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been blowing during the night and it was something I knew would eventually be gone, that if you weren’t up early enough you wouldn’t get to see it,” said Bingham. “Morning Frost” was taken by Bingham over Christmas break while visiting her family in Shelley, Idaho. In another piece that will be part of the exhibit entitled “The Dream,” senior and fine arts/criminal justice major Homeyra Shams turned a classroom assignment into a dreamscape of vibrant colors. “I made up this background to look like a dream,” Shams said. According to Shams the man’s face in the background was from a magazine. “I don’t have ideas before I start drawing. When I start drawing I get ideas and soon all the pieces come together,” Shams said. Despite Shams’s beautiful work that showcases her talent as an artist, when she graduates she plans to go to law school, still occasionally doing portraits of people. Shams said that art is her past time and that although she prefers oil paint, she likes to create in all mediums. “I love all mediums. I use acrylic; I use chalk. It doesn’t matter what style I do.” To check out all 13 pieces, students can take the northeast stairs in the Brady Garage starting Friday.
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Students can submit either photography, painting or writing to be on display. Every semester, the work will be cycled. For more information on how to submit artwork, visit transportation.boisestate.edu. pg 6
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