The Question
What efforts are being made to ensure security on behalf of employees and students walking to Howard Street for public transportation?
The Answer
Again what I would recommend is to let us know. People can call us and we're happy to give escorts. We also operate a van service that you can call and we'll gladly give you a ride to areas of the campus.
While we're on the topic of transportation I've begun to collaborate with Dr. Roger Ward [interim vice president of academic affairs] to come up with one good quality van program for this University. What's happening now is we have one van service operated out of student affairs and the police operate a van and shuttle service. Quite frankly, I think they both could be improved so I don't see why we can't collaborate and come up with one good van system. We've put a team together to start the talks and we plan to invite input from the entire University and come up with a recommendation for a van system that is accessible, available, meets the needs of our community, and be safe.
-Chief Williams
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