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The Georgetown University Student Association senate passed a bill calling for expansion of the Law Center Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle Bus service to Capitol Hill at its meeting Sunday.
The proposal, submitted by GUSA Historian Anebi Adoga (COL ’16), suggested expanding the pre-existing Law Center shuttle, which currently runs weekdays between campus and First and F streets NW, two blocks from Union Station and four blocks from Capitol Hill, to include a weekend stop at the National Mall and a Capitol Hill stop during the week.
“If I were to sum this up in a slogan, my reason for this is that education shouldn’t be limited to the classroom, and you shouldn’t have to go to house parties to have fun,” Adoga said.
Since Adoga submitted a proposal on Georgetown Ideas last week, the post has garnered more than 300 up-votes.
GUSA senator Abbey McNaughton (COL ’16) and GUSA Senate Vice Speaker Sam Greco (SFS ’15) co-sponsored the bill.
GUSA senators’ concerns were raised about the potential increase in time that adding another stop to the Law Center route would create and that a Capitol Hill stop might be superfluous considering the current stop’s proximity to Capitol Hill.
Since pitching the idea to Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson in October, Adoga has heard positive feedback from students and professors.
“We talk about breaking the Georgetown bubble, and a service like this would do exactly that,” Georgetown University College Democrats President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) said. “Georgetown has always had an issue with city connectedness due to various neighbor concerns. If we could expand GUTS Bus service to other parts of the city, we’d probably find Georgetown students taking more of a stake in what the city has to offer.”
