There have been growing student concerns related to Wolfline service to Centennial Campus and the Avent Ferry Road/Gorman Street corridor. There has been a constant demand for a dedicated bus route to Centennial Campus and engineering buildings that are used by a large graduate student population who reside on Avent Ferry Road and Gorman Street.   Wolfline has tried solving the issue by introducing Route 10 Southside circulator. Joshua Privette, chair of transportation and campus safety commission for Student Government, shed some light on the ongoing process of addressing this issue.   “One thing that Transportation has done this year is initiate Route 10 Southside circulator. This does serve the Avent Ferry Road area, it does not go up to the corner of Avent Ferry and Western, but serves the Avent Ferry Road between the crossing of Avent Ferry and Gorman up until it hits the Varsity Drive stop, which is obviously one of the main entrances to Centennial Campus,” Privette said.   He added that Transportation is looking to optimize this route to help out graduate students living off campus that don’t have cars.   “I know that the Transportation department at N.C. State is aware of this problem and they are working on something as a remedy for the graduate students that don’t have cars in this corridor in general. Transportation is looking to expand [Route] 10 but I’m not sure how. There is a plan in works for that,” Privette said.   Because the Wolfline Route 10 does not serve the engineering buildings many graduate students need access to, they have to walk down from the Research Drive stop served by [Route] 10.   “Student Government is always looking to advocate for all the students. The Avent Ferry and Gorman problem is something that we have tried to address because it is a concern that we got from the beginning,” Privette said. “There is a large segment of students that are using these buildings here and they need to be served by the Wolfline — that is the bottom-line.”   Privette also referred to the Wolfline transit development plan, which is a five-year plan for the Wolfline put out by NCSU Trasnportation. He said Wolfline is looking to introduce faster shuttle services between main and Centennial Campus in the coming years.   “The next thing on plan is a Centennial Park & Ride Shuttle. People who need to go frequently from main to Centennial are looking for quicker ways to travel between Centennial and main campus,” Privette said.   According to the five-year plan, a bus that specifically serves Centennial Campus would be introduced.   “The Centennial Circulator is next, which is going to be in effect later when the residence halls to the south of Hunt Library on Centennial are built, which I think is going to be just a Centennial Campus Circulator,” Privette said.   Privette said the role of Student Government is to advocate and not be a policy changer. They hope to bring about changes that are beneficial for the students and that transportation is adjusting for students’ good.   He also said there are plans in place to make Hunt Library a D.H. Hill for Centennial in terms of Wolfline.   “We have talked a lot about Hunt Library and transport connectivity and they are in the process of transit mobility plan which is a 10-year plan based on the growth of the University, and my impression is that Hunt will be a main hub a far as Centennial buses go. It will be like D.H. Hill for Centennial,” Privette said.   Emerson Barker, Student Senate president pro temper, pointed out that Wolfline is under a contract that has to be respected.   “Wolfline has to respect the contract with First Transit and they have changed around a lot of stuff to cater to students’ needs,” Barker said.   He added that these services have to be tweaked in a particular time.   “Once you sign a contract you have to make do within the contract and once you have achieved what was within the plan you can start renegotiating the contract and tweaking things,” Barker said.   Privette said Transportation deserves credit, serving a small city of 33,000 students.    Cathy Young, a research scholar in textiles, said she likes to take a bus but has to walk sometimes, and wishes there were more buses serving Avent Ferry Road and Centennial Campus.   Balaji Soundararajan, a graduate student in marketing analysis who has been pushing forth this issue, said in a round table event he was told that earlier contracts for Wolfline were more restrictive and they have been relaxed a bit now.   He pointed out that as a result of change since fall 2011 in the contract, Route 10 was introduced and Route 9 Greek Village was renamed to Gorman Street Local.   There has never been a quantitative approach to the issue.   “This agenda needs to be backed up by statistical data to prove that enough demand is there for Avent Ferry and Gorman Street and Centennial bus corridor,” Soundararajan said.