Just outside the Campus Safety and Transportation Department, Michael Nunez, assistant director of campus safety and transportation, hops into the recently donated Ford F150 pick-up truck to run an errand.
One dominant aspect of California widely separates our state from the rest of the nation: traffic congestion. Everyone who lives in California has seen it and been a part of it. Waiting for hours on a jammed highway has practically become second nature to Californians, especially toward the South.
Despite the soaring prices of gasoline, students at the University of La Verne still prefer driving their car than using other forms of transportation such as bikes, buses and trains to commute to school.
Searching for a parking space is always a hassle, a frustrating task many students and faculty members endure each day. Recently more and more students and professors have given up their cars for bicycles.
Several La Verne residents have filed complaints with the city as a precursor to a class-action lawsuit over the impact of the 210 Freeway extension, which they say has made their homes uninhabitable.