A crowd of protesters gathered outside Rawlings Hall late afternoon on May 8, chanting slogans like, “UF admin hear us now, save our routes or we shut it down.”
The protest gathered in light of proposed “alignment changes” to routes 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 20, 23, 33, 37 and 43. UF had previously announced RTS funding would be cut in half beginning July 1. Routes 16, 21, 28, 34, 35, 38, 46, 118, 122 and 127 will no longer be in service.
Other routes will be merged, such as route 12, one of the most used routes by students living off-campus, and route 35, which will no longer travel to Butler Plaza…