Getting around in DeKalb during the summer months usually requires the use of feet and legs. If the Student Association Mass Transit Board gets its way, those days might be over.

The board wants to provide Huskie Buses for the summer. This service would cost students 45 cents per credit hour, which pays for a grand total of two buses running four days out of the week, following current weekend routes.

For that amount, it’s not even worth gassing the things up and keeping them clean.

Because the mass transit board already unanimously passed the idea and has backed it up with a summer bus referendum OK’d last summer, it’s too late to warn them that the idea might not be so great.

However, the proposal still must pass through the President’s Fee Study Committee and the Board of Regents. Because these people aren’t paying tuition and fee bills and aren’t riding the buses, they’ll probably pass it along, too.

Maybe these people will see that reinstating summer buses would mark the end of a seven-year absence, which began when the city of DeKalb couldn’t afford the service. If a municipality couldn’t handle it, there’s no reason to hit the students with the bill.

Anyway, nowhere in DeKalb is really too far away from campus that people can’t walk. The warmth of summer is good for that.

Summer buses might be nice—but the unseen and non-financial costs outweigh the necessity.