The fight for an added stop on Huskie bus route 3B continued Monday as a member of the mass transit board produced a petition in support of it.

Pete Donnelly, a Student Association Mass Transit Board member turned in a petition of 39 signatures asking for a stop at the corner of Hillcrest Street and Blackhawk Street.

Donnelly, who has been a bus driver on route 3B for a year, said he brought the idea up because of the number of passengers complaining about the stop.

“I’m trying to do it because I feel it is my job to take their concerns into consideration,” he said.

However, Mass Transit Co-Vice Chairman Rich Parkman said the stop would be too dangerous and add extra time to the route.

Parkman also said that there was another stop one-half block away that the students could use.

“If you went to ask every fraternity on Greek Row if they wanted a stop in front of their house, of course they would say ‘yes’,” Parkman said.

The fate of the proposal is also up to the city of DeKalb because it would have to make the stop on Hillcrest Street a no-parking zone, Mass Transit Executive Director Todd Allen said.

“It is all up to the city,” Allen said.

But Donnelly said that despite the problems the mass transit board should follow the wishes of the students.

“The reason people did not bring it up (before) is because things don’t get done,” Donnelly said.

“I think it can succeed with enough petitions,” he said.

Doonnelly first proposed the new stop to the board two weeks ago.

However, the mass transit board never voted on the stop because the proposal for a stop died in a mass transit subcommittee.

“They (board members) are making it a major issue because they do not agree with me, and I do not agree with them,” he said.

“They are making it sound like a big, extreme negative when it is not,” he said.