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Lisa Karkut walks past the bus barns on the way to work at an architecture firm across the tracks.

It’s the most unpleasant stretch of her commute, as she has to navigate around the buses, their fumes and awkward parking.

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“The staff and the people there are very courteous — I’ll even miss some of the people who are out here for their smoke breaks that I pass nearly every day,” said Karkut, a community member of the city’s South Caswell committee.

“But overall I think that we could see something a lot more positive in there for the community.”

The bus barns will begin shutting down Friday as Saskatoon Transit’s total 186 regular and Access Transit buses will depart Caswell Hill in the morning and park at the shiny new $154 million Civic Operations Centre on Valley Road, director Jim McDonald said.

“You should see it on Monday — albeit it will be a little hectic and people will be trying to empty a whole bunch of boxes — but that’s what’s going to be happing this weekend,” he said.