If you’ve noticed there’s less mobile art along Eau Claire’s public transit routes, you’re not imagining things. Over the summer, one of the three Eau Claire Transit hybrid buses wrapped in UW-Eau Claire student art was damaged in an accident, and repairing the bus entailed removing part of the plastic wrap containing the artwork. Replacing the entire wrap would have cost $6,500, money the transit system doesn’t have, said transit manager Mike Branco. As a result, Branco decided to have the entire wrap removed. That leaves two buses still illustrated with images created by UWEC students in early 2013. Branco says he’s in the early stages of working with the university to create new art – potentially by children – to cover the bare bus. If that project is successful, he’d like to see new art on the other two buses. The original wraps were only intended to last about two years, so they will have to be removed or replaced sooner or later.