{"id":26018,"date":"2014-01-24T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=26018"},"modified":"2014-01-24T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:48:40","slug":"u-pass-changes-benefit-hamilton-campus-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/01\/u-pass-changes-benefit-hamilton-campus-students\/","title":{"rendered":"U-Pass changes benefit Hamilton campus students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will be easier for students at Brock&#8217;s Hamilton campus to get around on public transit, starting later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Brock University Students&#8217; Union (BUSU) announced at its annual general meeting recently that students attending the Hamilton campus will be able to use the U-Pass bus pass, paid for in annual students&#8217; union fees, on Hamilton buses.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, Christopher Yendt, BUSU&#8217;s vice-president of finance, said the change, which takes effect in August, will put the campus on at least five different Hamilton bus routes.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the U-Pass has only been good on St. Catharines Transit. Hamilton students have had to go through the process of opting out of the U-Pass and putting that money toward Hamilton bus tickets instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This transit update is just one more notch in trying to make the Hamilton campus more accessible for students,&#8221; Yendt said. &#8220;Some of the students that go to (Brock&#8217;s) satellite campus will have never stepped foot in the main St. Catharines campus. We need to remember that every campus represents Brock University and subsequently everything the University stands for.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be easier for students at Brock&#8217;s Hamilton campus to get around on public transit, starting later this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[133,1557,1556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26020,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018\/revisions\/26020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}