Individuals take advantage of the HuskieLine route 17 bus Sunday afternoon near the DuSable turn around. As of Jan. 1 changes to routes 16, 17 and 18 have been implemented.
Shaiquale Thompson (left), junior child development major, and junior biology major Jackie Tulian wait for their bus outside of the Holmes Student Center on Friday. ETA Spot, a new tracking app for the HuskieLine, is now available on iTunes and on the Android App store.
An extended Lucinda Avenue opened to cars, buses, bikers and pedestrians Wednesday after a year-long $4.5 million construction.The road now extends 1,495 feet through where Douglas Hall once stood, said Alan Phillips, vice president of Administration...
The Student Association may soon begin test runs of a modified HuskieLine bus route that will add the Lucinda Avenue extension to the Barsema Express.The Lucinda Avenue extension, a project that concludes with a ribbon cutting Wednesday at 2 p.m., extends...
The Student Association has reached out to students at other Illinois colleges and universities to participate in Thursday’s rally during Gov. Bruce Rauner’s visit to NIU.The SA has contacted Northeastern Illinois University, DePaul University, College...
NIU President Doug Baker’s plan for a 10-minute campus will soon be a couple blocks closer with the completion of the Lucinda Avenue extension.The project, intended to create a direct route to Stevenson Hall and the Convocation Center by extending Lucinda...
NIU should consult with the Student Association about students’ transportation needs before making costly purchases like the Huskie Pups.The four pups, which were a $95,000 addition to NIU President Doug Baker’s plan for a 10-minute campus and introduced...
A tracking system that may not be installed in HuskieLine buses until next semester will cost the Student Association and NIU $41,090 initially.Rob Jusino, Student Association director of Mass Transit, said the SA is in the contractual stages with ETA...
Students may not see a new HuskieLine bus tracking system until next semester, said Rob Jusino, Student Association director of Mass Transit.The new GPS system, which Jusino said would range in the thousands of dollars, stemmed from SA’s 2015 spring...
PassPolice informed students that a social media post suspected of being a threat had no connection to NIU. “Y’all thought it was a joke last Friday,” a screenshot of the message read. “This time I’m not worried about the police.” The post...
Angela PaganI would like to see DeKalb become more of a real college town within the next 10 years.The city should to continue to open up more student-friendly businesses, such as specialty shops and coffee shops with open mic nights. I recently met a...
