The approximately 700 students living in the East Campus Apartments complex now have one fewer way to get from their doors to their desks.
The Tiger Trails bus line will no longer stop at ECA after Student Government and the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation changed the list of stops for the Purple route, which until Aug. 15 was the only route that included an ECA stop.
The new Purple route will mirror the Gold route, which runs down Greek Row and onto campus, stopping at the Journalism Building, Patrick F. Taylor Hall, the Delta Zeta sorority house and the Kappa Alpha fraternity house.
SG President Cody Wells sought the change as part of his initiative to improve campus transportation. Wells said SG sent out polls through Greek chapter presidents and found the Greek population preferred identical Purple and Gold routes.
Only Greek students were surveyed on the matter, which Wells said was because studies by the Office of Parking found the majority of the route’s riders are Greek.
The decision to change the Purple route was made entirely by SG and the Office of Parking, said Jay High, Residential Life communications manager.
“We are disappointed to hear this, but we weren’t involved in the decision,” High said. “We would like the buses to service all of our