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Shuttle bus service changes—but staff stays the same
BY LISA BUCIOR, NDWORKS

The University may have changed its shuttle provider, but the man who drives the buses is not going anywhere.

On Sept. 10, Bill Trethewey officially left Coach USA—the University’s original shuttle provider—and the next day joined Cardinal Bus, after Coach USA decided to drop the route.

“It’s been great,” says Marty Ogren, the University’s transportation manager. “We’ve had a long-standing relationship with Cardinal Bus, and the fact that they were able to hire Bill makes it a painless transition. He knows all the routes and schedules.”

Trethewey says he has driven the shuttle bus at Notre Dame for almost nine years.

“It’s been great to work here,” he says. “I wouldn’t change that for anything—except retirement, but that’s at least two years away.”

“People who ride [the shuttle] don’t like anybody but Bill driving them,” says Gayle Wilson, an administrative assistant at the Office of VP-Business Operations. “It’s an easy route, but it’s hard to find the right person.”

If there’s a day when she gets a lot of emails from people complaining that the shuttle forgot them, Wilson says, “We know that Bill took the day off!”