photo by: Nick Krug

Bus riders heading to Johnson County Community College get on the K-10 Connector at the 19th Street and Haskell Avenue pickup spot on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016.

While public transportation has its foibles, I’ve always envied bus and train commuters who can nap, read or surf that time away instead of having to watch the road. I also envy them not having to buy gas and car insurance — although they do pay fares, which can really add up, too.

Starting this week, riders of the K-10 Connector bus should find themselves with a little more change left in their pockets.

The bus fare went down by 50 cents effective Monday, so it’s now $3 one way, according to a release from the Kanas City Area Transportation Authority. The price of a 31-day pass will be reduced to $95 from $117.60, and the cost of a 10-ride pass will be cut to $27 from $31.50.

On weekdays the bus ferries University of Kansas students (and other people) between Lawrence and Overland Park, with stops at the KU Lawrence campus, East Lawrence, KU’s Edwards Campus and the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College.

photo by: Nick Krug

Bus riders heading to Johnson County Community College get on the K-10 Connector at the 19th Street and Haskell Avenue pickup spot on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016.

The fare was cut to match the price of similar routes on the Missouri side of the state line, the KCATA said. For more information on the service, visit ridekc.org. According to KCATA, the route has been running since 2007 and has about 122,000 boardings each year.

• Unusual concert traversing campus: There’s an unusual art event scheduled to “commute” across the KU campus next week (see what I did there?) in celebration of the newly renovated Spencer Museum of Art, which reopens to the public Oct. 15 (I had a big story about that in today’s paper — read it and see photos here).

The museum describes this specially commissioned event/artwork as “architectural-choral fusion.” To me it sounds kind of like a pub crawl, but instead of stopping at bars and drinking beer participants will stop before buildings of architectural significance and be serenaded by KU’s best voices.

“Resonant Vessels” begins at 4 p.m. Oct. 15 at Capitol Federal Hall and ends at 7 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art. According to the museum the progressive concert and walking tour will feature seven movements performed by KU Choirs, each performed during a stop at a KU building. Featured buildings are Capitol Federal Hall, DeBruce Center, Wescoe Hall, Strong Hall, the Campanile and Spencer Research Library, Marvin Grove and, for the final movement, the Spencer Museum’s Central Court.

The event is free but requires a ticket, and a limited number are available. For details or to reserve tickets click here. Attendees requiring transportation assistance should call 864-0126 to make arrangements.

photo by: Mike Yoder

New landscaping and entrance displays greet visitors to the new renovated spaces and reinstalled galleries at Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.

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• I’m the Journal-World’s KU and higher ed reporter. See all the newspaper’s KU coverage here. Reach me by email at sshepherd@ljworld.com, by phone at 832-7187, on Twitter @saramarieshep or via Facebook at Facebook.com/SaraShepherdNews.