For students taking classes or working over the summer, bus services have been causing inconvenience, especially since they have been used to the buses running frequently to many destinations during the regular semesters.

A route that typically runs about every 10 minutes during the fall and spring comes about every 40 minutes in the summer, for example.

Director of Marketing for CATA, Laurie Robison, said the frequency of buses is determined after serious consideration of the student population, demand for the services and the budget of their client.

“People have limited budgets and we try to accommodate according to their budget. The level of services (is) not solely dictated by CATA,” Robison said.

Although admitting to not receiving any complaints from the students about bus services in the summer, Director of Campus Planning and Administration Jeffrey Kacos said there has been a rise in the student population for summer semesters of late.

“Along with the number of students, since the activities on campus have increased over the summer, it should be something we continue to monitor,” Kacos said. “The challenge would be to identify the funding to make that happen.”

Kacos said limited resources and high costs of providing public transport are the main reasons behind the less-frequent buses in the summer.

“Primarily, it is a cost reason. We are trying to be good stewards of the financial resources,” he said.

For psychology junior Monique Lewis, who lives off-campus, the CATA bus is the only mode of transport.

“The bus timings put a strain on my work schedule,” Lewis said. “I think they should run the buses like in other semesters because a lot of students stay here.”

Social work freshman Cindy Zhang finds the lower frequency of buses to be inconvenient, as well.

“Sometimes it is very annoying if you miss the bus because then you have to wait for about 40 minutes for the next one,” Zhang said.