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Updated Rutgers buses will have Wi-Fi, better tracking services Christian Zapata News Editor
Students will soon have access to free Wi-Fi across all Rutgers buses. After over a decade of updating bus times through Nextbus, the Department of Transportation Services (DOTS) is switching over to TransLoc — a different public transit tracking system — in a move to update its services. Onboard internet access, a tracking system that displays bus location and a tool that measures the number of students loaded on a bus are just a few new features that John Karakoglou, Assistant Director of DOTS, is looking forward to. “The time was right now to also put the Wi-Fi on the buses, to give that extra convenience for the kids to be able to use their devices while they’re going between College Avenue and Busch and maybe give them a couple of minutes to listen to a song,” he said. Instead of using RUWireless, riders can connect to a bus specific Wi-Fi network — accessible to all New Brunswick residents and Rutgers students. DOTS hopes to have beta testing underway by the end of the semester with a full roll out of internet services sometime during the fall.
DOTS first employed Nextbus ser vices during 2006 and first encountered issues with the system earlier this semester. The system was unable to track buses through the Rutgers App for roughly 48 hours, an issue that affected over 50 universities and transit systems across the countr y, The Targum reported. Karakoglou said TransLoc will give DOTS more information and data that they can use to gauge when and where people travel throughout the day. Transitioning into a new system is part of the way they hope to lighten their everyday workload and build a better commuting experience for students. Whenever signs posted in front of bus stops lose power, DOTS is tasked with a campus-wide game of pick up sticks — finding and fixing upwards of 30 signs, he said. A system that provides DOTS with better location services gives it a better idea of how to coordinate bus ser vices between 12 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. — their peak ride times. “People don’t want to wait, the bus drivers are going to have to make the call at some point and say stop,” he said. “Even though there’s a bus 10 feet behind it, the people want to be on that first bus.
As part of the University’s 2030 plan, Rutgers buses will now have on-board Wi-Fi, better location services and a feature that allows the Department of Transportation Services to regulate how many students load a bus. THE DAILY TARGUM / FEBRUARY 2017 Let’s say Scott Hall or the SAC, there might be 300-400 people waiting to go to Livingston, the bus only holds 67 … It might give us the option to run a couple buses together or to maybe bypass the Scott Hall bus stop with one bus to go directly to the SAC.” Unlike Nextbus, TransLoc allows riders to find exactly where
their bus is and helps dispel worries that DOTS is not running its buses during inclement weather or school closings, Molenaar said. These updates play a small part of the University’s 2030 plan to update University transit hubs, housing, student centers, athletic facilities and includes implementing roundabouts into areas with a
heavy influx of traffic, according to the master plan. “Rutgers 2030 envisions development at Rutgers over a 15-year time frame, 2015 to 2030, and is comprehensive in its scope; taking into account buildings, the natural and constructed landscape, transportation, and infrastructure,” according to the plan.
ICE raid targets undocumented immigrants hiding in Highland Park Erica D’Costa Associate News Editor
Members from the Reformed Church of Highland Park rally in solidarity against immigration policies that separate children from their families. FACEBOOK
Three undocumented Christian Indonesians are seeking sanctuary in the Reformed Church of Highland Park after President Donald J. Trump’s crackdown on the deportation of illegal immigrants. One of these men has not stepped outside the church walls in four months, according to NJ Advance Media Rev. Seth-Kaper Dale welcomed the men into his church after they left Indonesia, claiming religious persecution in their country. Harr y Pangemanan was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and almost deported in 2009, when the Reformed Church of America helped him get an extended stay. Since then, the 47-year-old became a construction worker and has helped rebuild more than 209 homes that were af fected by Hurricane Sandy. He recently won the 2018 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from the Highland Park Human Relations
Commission for his community ser vice and leadership. On Thursday, ICE attempted to detain him while he was taking his daughter to school. He called his pastor, who opened the church doors for him. He now sleeps in a Sunday school classroom on a mattress. Agents refrain from arresting undocumented immigrants in “sensitive” places like churches, schools and hospitals, which have been a safe haven for hundreds of illegal residents in the past years, according to ICE policy. On Friday, federal U.S. district Judge Esther Salas issued an order freezing the depor tations of another two Christian Indonesians who were arrested in Newark while dropping their daughters of f at school. She argued that their summar y deportation procedure infringed on due process. “These community members, our neighbors, are entitled to argue their case with the protections of due process, especially when the stakes are life-and-death,” said
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Amol Sinha, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, in an NJ Advance Media article. In the past years, Christian Indonesians have faced discrimination and persecution by radical Islamic groups in the countr y. 41 percent of religious persecution in Indonesia is violent, according to Open Doors. Arthur Jemmy is a 17-year-old refugee in the church who has not stepped outside since October 2017. He recounted a time when he attended a church ser vice with his family in Indonesia. A radical group then entered and decapitated the priest before burning down the entire church, according to the article. He said that he trusted Trump who said that he would only target undocumented residents with criminal records. “But he’s broken his promise,” Jemmy said. “I know I overstayed, but I keep working. This country comes from taxes you pay — I pay taxes, I learned English ... I do nothing criminal,” he said.