Student Government Director of Transportation Noah Miller announced the gold route of Tiger Trails bus system will no longer run in front of the Student Union at the SG Senate meeting Wednesday night.The buses will now continue down Dalrymple Drive past Tower Drive to West Lakeshore Drive.”That was a very good portion of the complaints we were receiving,” Miller said. “It was unnecessary trying to get through traffic and illegally parked cars in front of the Union. It just wasn’t efficient for us to go through there.”Miller said he and the Office of Parking, Traffic, and Transportation continue to evaluate the efficiency of the routes and will release a student survey in the next three weeks to gauge student opinion on the new bus system.”We want to give students two more weeks to form their opinion,” Miller said. “We are taking input from students and faculty, but we are listening to students more because student fees pay for the routes.”Jordan Milazzo, SG executive director of Campus Development announced University official will remove the placeholder signs around campus next week.Milazzo explained the placeholder signs have been up to judge readability and proper heights for the new signs. A Wayfinding survey was sent to students to judge the readability of the new signs. The campus Wayfinding management team will meet Sept. 15 to review the results of the survey. Once the chancellor approves the plan for the new signs students should start seeing signs, going up around campus in January, Milazzo said.”It’s a long process for the signs to go up, due to the large nature of the funding needed,” Milazzo said. Milazzo told the senate the entire project — which will eventually include new gateway and entrance signs — will cost between $5.5 million and $7 million. Milazzo couldn’t explain where the costs for the entire project will come from but said no student fees were used to pay for the placeholder signs.Vice President Martina Scheuermann announced the Union Advisory Board will hold a vote to name the new area of the Union, now known as the Live Oak Lounge. Beginning Monday, students will vote via their PAWS accounts on the top three names selected by the advisory board.Sen. Andy Palermo, University Center for Advising and Counseling, explained Moodle will now perform system updates from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday mornings when necessary. Palermo explained he had trouble using Moodle Sunday night because the company which runs the Web site was performing upgrades. Palermo said he contacted University officials who contacted the company that operates Moodle. As a result, the company which runs Moodle redefined the window when upgrades would be completed to minimize student problems.–Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]
Tiger Trails gold route redirected
September 2, 2009