 | Anyone with a valid Yale I.D. may ride the Yale shuttle bus for free. New daytime and nighttime routes have been added. |
Members of the Yale community will find navigating the campus a little easier with newly implemented improvements to Yale's shuttle bus services.
The enhancements include more efficient bus routes, better signage and more environmentally friendly transportation.
The changes are the result of recommendations made by students, staff, faculty and administrators, whose advice in improving the system was solicited by Yale's Parking and Transit Office and the Yale College Council and Graduate and Professional Student Senate's transit subcommittee. In addition, shuttle bus drivers and Yale Transit operations workers also offered suggestions for improvements.
Faster service is one of the major improvements. Now, shuttle buses will run every 10 minutes throughout the day. In the past, riders could wait up to 40 minutes for a bus at midday.
Revised routes will also decrease the length of the buses' loop around the campus, saving about 10 minutes per trip. The new loops will now take a maximum of a half hour, as opposed to the 40 minutes the routes have taken in the past.
A loop around central campus and Science Hill, with stops along Orange Street, has been permanently added. This route was run on an experimental basis last academic year and was heavily used, carrying about 4,500 riders per month.
Some under-used routes, including daytime loops in the Chapel and Howe street neighborhood and the Tower Parkway area, have been eliminated during the day. These areas will continue to receive door-to-door service in the nighttime.
A nighttime shuttle for locations south of Elm Street, with regular stops at the Schools of Nursing and Medicine, is being added this year.
Improvements to shuttle bus signage include the installation of LED digital displays with route information on all buses during the opening weeks of the semester. Bus stop signs have also been added at stops throughout the campus.
In consideration of the environment, all shuttle buses have switched to an ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel. This semester, a pollution control "scrubbing" device will be tested on the vehicles for effectiveness. In addition, the University is currently exploring the feasibility of upgrading to hybrid or other alternative fuel vehicles.
In the future, upgraded shuttle maps and a revamped shuttle bus website will help travelers plan their routes.
All persons with a valid Yale I.D. card may travel on University transit vehicles for free. Over the past 10 years, the use of Yale transit services has increased dramatically. Approximately 185,000 passengers used daytime shuttles in 1993-1994, while some 251,000 members of the Yale community traveled by shuttle in 2003-2004. Nighttime shuttles carried 130,000 passengers in 1993-1994 and 208,000 in 2003-2004.
For further information about Yale shuttle transportation, call (203) 432-9790. Shuttle bus schedules are available at the Sterling Hall of Medicine information desk, 333 Cedar St.; the Yale Visitor Center, 149 Elm St.; and the Parking and Transit Services Office, 155 Whitney Ave.
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