3,360 Facebook fans successfully lobbied for a return of college bus stop

by Michal Kašpárek on January 22, 2010

Bus line #53
How many students can get aboard a bus #53? I could not Google the answer, but the original picture says: MANY. Source: Facebook

How many students can get aboard a bus #53? I could not Google the answer, but the original picture says: MANY. Source: Facebook

The town-owned transport company will likely restore the original route of bus line #53, connecting the 4,000-student dormitory at Palackého vrch with Brno. Town council wants the dormitory station back after 3,000+ students signed a petition and 3,360 Facebook fans cried for preserving the bus-stop “Kolejení”.

The station was cancelled few weeks ago to save approx. CZK 3,5M (€135k) yearly, although this decision made thousands of students, including expats, walk some 500 metres to the nearest stop even several times a day.

It was a pispoor clever step anyway – it made upset only the people who could not vote to the town council of Brno, as the dormitory is inhabited by students from other towns and countries.

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Martin January 22, 2010 at 6:30 PM

I found it.
237 people in the short variant of city bus – student carnival Majales 2003
http://noname.kn.vutbr.cz/majales.php.html

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