Red Terror Transit
Angelo Anthony Caravano and Steven Wilson Quick
Tony Caravano and Will Quick describe the development of the Red Terror Transit bus line from idea to implementation.
Interview on 2011-11-04 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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Tony Caravono: At NC State there were a couple of things that you saw on your way to a game. You saw a ton of people walking and they looked really tired.
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They were not getting into the game on time because a ton of the people that were walking were freshmen and they weren't getting to the student section but they had great seats,
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so they'd be late to games. They also missed out on the community piece, right? Everyone is there tailgating.
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Tailgating is part of the culture here and they were missing out on that.
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So we wanted to provide some sort of transportation from campus, not just for freshmen, but from campus for whomever wanted to be involved,
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Phillips, he served with me and I think-
Will Quick: He served with me too.
Tony Caravano: -with you as well.
Will Quick: Same role.
Tony Caravano: He might have done three or four years in the same role.
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He pulled it together. This guy was brilliant in working with transportation, working with the administration
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and taking the vision that we had and getting it going on the ground, and it basically went from campus to the game and in a loop and got folks back and forth safely.
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Will Quick: We extended it to basketball during my time as student body president
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and sort of worked to try and solidify some of the funding. That's one of the things about student government and the way it works.
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The way it should work is that someone starts something-. So Tony has this great idea about Red Terror Transit,
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and then somebody else comes along and maybe it doesn't get as much attention and it falls off but it was a good idea.
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Well I was two years after Tony when I was actually student body president but I was still involved and the Red Terror Transit was still going on,
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so we build on the program, we add basketball and we try to work with the Wolfpack Club and transportation to make it a more set structure
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so that if someone two or three years down the road doesn't have as big a focus on that, that it continues.
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So a lot of that was, how do we make this something that's a tradition at NC State,
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and it's still running and it's still there and it's still got a lot of people riding it.
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