{"id":32340,"date":"2009-10-16T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=32340"},"modified":"2018-06-04T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:00:22","slug":"one-millionth-passenger-gets-campus-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=32340","title":{"rendered":"One millionth passenger gets campus surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32342 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle1-300x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle1-300x448.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle1-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle1.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Transportation Services division of the UCCS Department of Public Safety recognized its 1 millionth shuttle bus passenger Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman biology student Chris Jones was greeted as he boarded the bus by Russ Wilcox, transportation services supervisor, Public Safety, and William Whitfield, parking and transportation manager, Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Wilcox and Whitfield presented Jones with a UCCS Mountain Lion shoulder bag, a UCCS Bookstore gift card and a VIP certificate. Jones is a freshman and a recent graduate of Fountain-Fort Carson High School. Jones was escorted off the shuttle by Wilcox and Whitfield and awarded with a private ride in a campus Toyota Prius to the 4-Diamonds Sports Complex parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Posters featuring Jones as the 1 millionth shuttle bus passenger will be posted on the campus shuttles for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The campus shuttle bus program continues to grow in ridership and reached the one million mark after seven years of service. According to Wilcox, current ridership is approximately 8,000 passengers per week. At the current pace, the two millionth passenger designation will occur in five years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32343\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle2.jpg 685w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle2-300x448.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle2-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32344 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle3-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle3-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle3-750x502.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle3-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;by Tamara Moore<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Transportation Services division of the UCCS Department of Public Safety recognized its 1 millionth shuttle bus passenger Tuesday. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=32340\" title=\"One millionth passenger gets campus surprise\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shuttle1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-8pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32346,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions\/32346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}