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What a ride! Van Pool Service keeps picking up speed in its 30th year
Bernadette Yanda doesn’t like to drive. Wendy Stokesbary wanted to save 75 percent on her commuting costs. Dave Myers wanted to eliminate them all together. So today all three are among the 870-plus commuters participating in The University of Iowa’s Employee Van Pool Program as it celebrates its 30th year. The program, run by the University’s parking and transportation department, provides University-owned vans to groups of employees who live in the same community and work similar hours. With the exception of a few years in the early 2000s, the vanpool has grown steadily since it debuted in 1978 with four 12-passenger vans serving four nearby communities. Today, a fleet of 43 maxivans and 42 minivans serve 877 commuters in 34 communities.
Photo feature: Physics Machine Shop's otherworldly creationsMachinists in the Physics Machine Shop, located in Van Allen Hall, use state-of-the-art tools and, on occasion, vintage machine equipment to create instruments that are used on NASA missions.
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