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Show Transit district cou: ushi improve bus servir BY VERN MOULTON f Staff Writer ole Eligible voters may cast ballots Nov. 4 on an issue whidili;000 effect on University students. Unless votes are cast to estate: transit district in Salt Lake City, bus service to the Unte discontinue as of Aug. 31, 1970. (J A pamphlet distributed by the Salt Lake Chamber of fe describes a public transit district as: "An independent pf: J" 0 capable of operating, maintaining and extending mass tai: (bus service) in metropolitan and urban areas." Such an ajjv not be impowered to levy taxes of any kind. If a public transit district is established here, it would befeuta funds provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation. would amount to two-thirds of the total cost of acpi;on system. The other one-third would be supplied by those cocatur surrounding metropolitan Salt Lake who would benefit kyM ir , , , t . . bad service extended to their area. , If approved, the transit district will provide for an exte'i las improvement of the present system. Bill Fields, fe'en Transportation for Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce,, proposed new system to transportation problems at theUniB can do a lot toward improving service up there if '-, taJ patronage," he said. There is a good possibility that l"1"1 'the University would include more buses, more bus stops ' closer to the University, and more compatible bus schiugh improvements would mean that those students riding the ys have to walk shorter distances to get to bus stops and will'- for a bus when they got there. ;ortla Efficient bus service to the campus may have a Srea er ' -alke effect than is immediately evident. With a yearly increase oft nce and the attached increase in the number of cars going torank campus, good bus service could alleviate at least part o Even the best of bus service could not provide a compW' it is obvious that those who now take the bus to sdlo0:5r find auto transportation if the present bus system is disc"1 William B. Brown, office manager of Salt Lake City that there are about 1,000 University students who r j( c;The from school everyday. If his estimate is fairly accurat8'' $ he five percent of our student population depends onbussf rmal School. (recti hnW cess'1 I As students, naturally our first concern is n service will effect the student population. Howe tess. Rohlfing, of Gillham Advertising, in charge of pr .ve system, said there are many others who would be et e i bus transportation. bem chitted. The new system may help to curtail the Pr0 je-rapidly je-rapidly increasing automobile population in the m ,: full bus carries about fifty people. If this same VuM private autos, they would need between 20 an En problems of smog, parking, and traffic control ar increased car population. j |