Since ridership has declined from 350 rides per day in 2008 to 100 per day in 2010, officials are cutting shuttle stops and creating a bus tracking system to make the service more efficient.
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With 10 to 20 percent more students using the nighttime Campus Transit van system this year and with the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation at capacity with full-time drivers, it has turned to student drivers to bulk up its staff.
Read More →Of three bills passed with the intention of improving campus transportation, one bill asks for an extension of shuttle service to include weekend hours. Some senators argued that the extension, at an estimated $60,000 per month, will be too expensive.
Read More →Robert Baer is credited with helping lead the successful campaign to pass a half-cent sale-tax increase in St. Louis County last April that enabled Metro to restore service reductions and finance future expansions and new services.
Read More →Statistics students will count how many students ride the University and Athens Transit bus systems. As a member of the National Transit Database, the Athens Transit Bus system is required to collect the ridership data.
Read More →The ten transit and six bicycle shelters have been provided by MSSmedia, an outdoor advertising company that works with universities.
Read More →The university's SafeRide program is adding three additional phone lines for the service and doubling the number of people answering phones. The University Transit System will begin a pilot program Thursday, Oct. 28, to extend late-night bus service to Thursdays through the end of this semester.
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With choices ranging from on-campus car sharing services to fare-free public transportation, more and more Spartans are choosing to try alternative means of getting to and from campus.
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First Transit has operated the campus shuttle since 2007. More than 3.8 million passengers ride the shuttle annually.
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The Transloc application recently added route information for Campus Transit to its fixed-route tracking system.
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