The addition of a tenth bus route to the Huskie Bus Line’s present daily service was discussed by the Student Association Mass Transit Board Monday, but no decision was made on the proposed route.

The transit board did decide, however, to add a bus stop to Route 9 in front of Kentucky Fried Chicken, 1690 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore.

NIU Parking Committee member Henry Winsor presented the proposal for an east-west campus bus route to the board, saying it would help alleviate what he called “a parking problem on campus.”

Winsor said students are parking illegally in faculty/staff parking lots on the east side of campus because of the lots’ proximity to the central campus.

“The idea is to service student parkers to move them across campus (from west student parking lots),” Winsor said. His proposal added that the new bus route would cost about $12,500 a semester for weekday runs from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The bus would run in an approximated 20-minute loop driving west on Lucinda Avenue to Annie Glidden Road, southbound to Lincoln Highway and east to Gilbert and Castle Drives.

Transit board member Robin Snyder, however, said she “would consider handicapped transportation service a priority to giving students with two legs a shuttle across campus.”

Transit board member Matt Kouzes agreed, saying he finds it “difficult to appropriate $25,000 a year to provide a bus service for students who can walk across campus.”

The transit board Monday also discussed changing the student busing fee. The discussion included one proposal to raise the current $2.33 per credit hour fee to $2.83 by the 1991-92 school year.

Transit board Chairman Dave Emerick has said he “would not approve” an increase of more than $1, but that an increase could be implemented to cover the increased costs of fuel and fixed expenses and the new handicapped and late-night transportation services.

In other business, the transit board listened to a complaint from John Morreale, campaign manager for Linda Finn, who is the Democratic candidate for DeKalb County circuit clerk. Morreale said advertisements he paid for on Finn’s behalf did not appear on some Huskie buses. “Each day one of our signs does not appear is a major dilemma,” he said.

Nancy Ortega, in charge of advertising for the transit board, said the problem was “human error” committed by an employee who is responsible for the signs.

But Morreale said “If threatening helps, we’ll have to threaten someone to put the signs up.”