Jun
4
Unitrans At UC Davis: 40 Years of Successful Transit Service
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Student Run Service Handles 3 Million Passengers Yearly for Davis Community
What is Unitrans? A Brief History: Unitrans was founded in 1968 as the University Transport System, when the Associated Students of UC Davis purchased two vintage London doubledecker buses to operate on two routes.
In 1972… Continue reading
Jun
1
The Freshman 15 (Minutes): Rutgers Makes Life Easier All the Way to Graduation
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Thanks to NextBus, students get around campus quickly and reliably
College poses plenty of challenges as students acclimate themselves to a new way of living. The stress of a new environment, financial constraints, and academic obligations can lead to quite a few undesirable attributes, from weight gain to… Continue reading
May
29
AC Transit in Alameda County Scores with NextBus
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AC Transit-Alameda County
AC Transit is the third-largest bus-only transit system in California, serving over 400 square miles of the East Bay. For over forty years, AC Transit has been dedicated to providing quality mass transit. Every weekday, over 230,000 people ride their fleet of nearly 800 buses.
May
25
Student Leadership Funds 2 University Transit Systems
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Texas Tech
At the April 2008 APTA University Conference, Austin Pennington, the Vice President of the Student Government Association at Texas Tech proved what students can accomplish when they are truly motivated. In this case they found a way to fund an university transit system from the ground up.
Seven years ago it became glaringly evident that Texas Tech needed some form of organized public transportation. There was an overwhelming amount of… Continue reading