UTA shuttle to TRE stopped

Officials say few used the bus service to the CentrePort/DFW Airport train station.
By Barbara Gelinas - Contributor to The Shorthorn - May 31, 2007
The university will no longer run a shuttle bus that took students and faculty to the Trinity Railway Express CentrePort/DFW Airport Station because of low ridership.Lack of ridership led officials to cancel the Mav Mover Shuttle Service to the Trinity Railway Express CentrePort/DFW Airport stop May 10, said transportation supervisor Debra C. Klingler.

Although a head count was kept each day, Klingler said she did not have exact figures prepared. The route, which ran from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., carried about seven or eight riders a day, she said.

Megan Topham, UTA/Fort Worth Center assistant director for operations, didn’t think any of their students used the service.

“We have all graduate programs,” she said. “Our students don’t take any classes on the UTA campus.”

Klingler didn’t think any faculty or staff used the route regularly, and Topham said she could only recall faculty using the route once, during its opening event.
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