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Please, sir, may I have some more? University community would like more bus service at UMD

Sam Quackenbush

Can there be too much enthusiasm for public transportation? 

The Duluth Transit Authority is currently grappling with that situation.

Last month's focus group meeting with the University community about the DTA's campus service returned one message loud and clear: "We love the service; we just want more, please."

And a couple of other route expansions (and solutions to problems) may be getting the green light soon.

The good news, says DTA General Manager Dennis Jensen, is that transportation needs can be addressed almost immediately because there are very few layers of bureaucracy.

The not-as-good news, of course, is that budget is always an issue.  But a project with the MN DOT may be helping to solve that problem, too.

Comments and suggestions for the DTA can be submitted online by filling out this form.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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