The Panther Express shuttle bus still runs on last year’s schedule, and a committee must be formed before changes can be made in the schedule or campus and community route.

Last semester student government voted unanimously to allocate $400 from this year’s fiscal budget for the printing of new shuttle bus schedules.

“We don’t have new shuttle bus schedules,” said student Speaker Mike Walsh. “I know the bus is going off the 2002 schedule.”

“Usually (the shuttle bus committee) makes the schedule when they come back (in the fall),” said Bill Davidson, student executive vice president for public affairs. “For instance, last year it wasn’t done till we got back because we didn’t know where the art students would be.”

Walsh said he plans to form the shuttle bus committee by next week’s Student Senate meeting.

“I’d definitely like to get better shuttle bus schedules made,” Walsh said last week.

A new and improved format that shows the individual bus routes mapped out will make it easier for students to consult the schedules, Walsh said.

“Mike and (Student Body President) Caleb Judy have already talked about a new style for the schedules,” Davidson said, adding it’s “kind of like the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) express schedules” that color-code its various bus routes on a single map.

The fall 2002 schedules that are still being used list the different bus routes in grouped charts and do not include any maps.

“I think we should do quality as opposed to quantity,” Walsh said, referring to the improvement he would like to make to the bus schedule format.