A former Associated Students Inc. member is gathering support from students to approve changing Long Beach Transit Passport routes.
Brian Troutner, a former ASI treasurer, tried at the ASI Senate meeting Wednesday to gather student support for changing the current Passport B and D routes. Forms will be presented at Long Beach Transit’s upcoming meeting for route service changes Sept. 28. at the Long Beach City Council chambers at City Hall.
“I really would like to go to Long Beach Transit with a huge, huge stack [of approval forms],” Troutner said.
Troutner said if enough people voice their support for the new Long Beach Transit routes, it will get this thing “taken care of.” He said neighbors who are along the Passport B’s Fourth Street route, for example, do not want students to park on their streets.
Troutner said students on streets west of campus, such as Ximeno Avenue, get left behind because the buses are completely full. He said the new Passport B and D routes would alleviate this problem.
“I’m one of the people that come from between Third and Fourth and get on the Seventh Street bus,” Troutner said. “And so if I was able to get on [the bus] one block [from where I live] instead of three-and-a-half blocks, it would help me out. A lot of people are in that same situation.”
Cal State Long Beach officials announced in April that the CSULB off-campus shuttle bus service will be cancelled in order to pay for the new U-Pass bus program.
ASI President Christopher Chavez explained that the cancelling of the off-campus shuttle buses was essential to save U-Pass. He said the off-campus shuttle was a major drain on resources.
Mark Rudometkin, interim general manager of Parking and Transportation Services at CSULB, said in a previous Daily 49er article that off-campus buses stopped service because the route largely followed the same route of LB Transit’s Route 171, which travels to and from CSULB via Pacific Coast Highway and Anaheim Road.
