WSU students urged the Pullman City Council to modify bus schedules during a city council meeting Tuesday.

Isaac Velazquez, ASWSU all-campus senator, asked the council if extending bus hours would be possible.

Wayne Thompson, manager of Pullman Transit, said the city council investigates transit after the spring semester. Thompson said he gets a number of requests each year for transit changes but had not received a request about extending hours recently.

“That’s something students have wanted for the last three years since I’ve been here,” Velazquez said. “I found it interesting that maybe the message hadn’t been relayed to the transit manager.”

Other student groups are advocating for transit changes. Tathagata Pal, Graduate and Professional Student Association Vice President of Legislative Affairs, spoke at a council meeting earlier this month about merging the Apartment Land Express and Campus routes.

This change would not add another bus, any new bus stops, any extra bus driver or any change in the direction of the current routes.

It would not cost any money to make this change, GPSA said.

With three buses running, the average wait time for the Apartment Land Express route is eight minutes and an average 12 minutes for the Campus route, which operates with one bus, according to GPSA, the Graduate student government.

This change would not add another bus, any new bus-stops, any extra bus driver, or any change in the direction of the current routes. The merge was considered this year by ASWSU; they voted to move the Mooberry Track and Beasley Coliseum stops to the Flag Lane stop instead.

Velazquez said he was concerned with buses being moved around but would need to learn more about the idea before supporting it.

The Pullman 2025-26 budget gives roughly $9.5 million to transit and adds,two new buses to the 26-bus fleet.

In 2023, Pullman Transit  saw 749,831 riders on bus routes.