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    campus brings new bus routes

    Lion Traxx Shuttle Service will be offering two new routes in place of the old route for this coming year in order to give students better transportation to and from classes.

    The Student Government Association originally started the program in 2007. Currently, an average of 1,500 students ride the bus each day. 

    Through requests and surveys from students and the growing need to put bus stops at increasingly popular areas, such as the Student Union and the teacher’s education building, the program decided it was time to expand the route and separate it into two different routes: a gold route and a green route.

    “We took the one route we were running for the past seven years and split it into two routes,” said Director of Lion Traxx Gary Prescott. “Now we will have one route on the west side of campus and one route on the east side of campus. What that does is allow us to add two more stops to populated areas of campus.”

    Since freshmen commuters, students from Greek Village and Southeastern Oaks mainly use the bus system to get from north campus to south campus, all north campus stops will remain the same and be on both the gold and green routes. The only difference between these routes is one splits off to go to the east side of campus while the other splits off to go to the west side of campus.

    “The routes will be designated: a green route and a gold route,” said Prescott. “Each stop will be equipped with a map showing where the next stop will be. Also, proper signage will say all our hours of operation. One thing we will add is there will be a little QR code at the bottom, which will allow the students to track the shuttles in real time.”

    The Southeastern App will also be updated and revamped to be more user friendly. This will give students a way to track all the shuttles and see which bus is closest to them.

    Furthermore there will be four running buses going throughout the routes at a time instead of three. These may include one 40 passenger bus, one 16 passenger/handicap accessible bus and three 24 passenger buses.

    This will make routes faster. The standard route used to be 17 to 18 minutes; this recent change to the system will cut the bus routes to 13 to 14 minutes.

    “All of this is done in hopes of trying to speed up our transient times for more students to meet the demands of transportation that has been required these last couple of years,” said Prescott.

    Lion Traxx hours are between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Students must have a valid Southeastern student identification card in order to ride the bus. 

    In addition, Lion Traxx is offering student employment for student drivers. Students who are interested in becoming student drivers need to contact Prescott in order to apply for the position.

    “We currently have two student drivers who did an awesome job and we are hoping to expand a little more,” said Prescott.

    For more information about Lion Traxx, contact Shuttle Services at 985-549-2877.

     

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