Shuttle service between Frist Campus Center and destinations along Route 1 will begin Saturday night to provide more evening entertainment options for students.
The shuttle will depart from behind Frist twice a night at 8:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. and can carry 19 students, said USG president Nina Langsam '03.
The shuttle will stop at AMC Hamilton 24 theaters on Sloan Avenue and at Colonial Lanes bowling alley on Brunswick Avenue in Lawrenceville. Both are off Route 1 South.
Langsam said she has been meeting with contacts since January to plan the service, which has not been in place for two years.
The shuttle will run two circuits and make final stops at the theater at midnight and at the bowling alley at 12:15 a.m. to bring students back to campus.
Zack Surak '05, USG campus and community affairs chair, has contacted RA groups about using the shuttle for weekend outtings. Surak is a staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.
The shuttle will run every Friday and Saturday night until the beginning of May. Whether it continues to be offered next year depends on its popularity, Langsam said.
Larry Cabell, an employee at Colonial Lanes, said the shuttle would be good for both students and business. Most University students who currently come to the 64-lane alley are upperclassmen with cars, Cabell said.
The shuttle will likely encourage more freshmen and sophomores to go to the bowling alley and movie theaters off campus.
"I think people get stuck on this campus," Dominick Martin '05 said. "If they don't have a car, they don't get off campus. The 'Street' is fun, but it's good to do other things after a while."
Martin said that while he himself wouldn't be interested in using the shuttle, the additional opportunities are good for students.
At a recent USG meeting, however, concerns were raised that the option of going to theaters in Hamilton would cut into the business of the campus-based University Film Organization.
However, UFO president Sal Butt '05 said he was not worried about the effects of the new shuttle.
"I go to AMC all the time but I still go to plenty of UFO shows," Butt said. "In general [the shuttle] is a great thing."
He said UFO's movies do not compete directly with first-run movies at commercial theaters. UFO shows movies later than they are first released and sells tickets cheaper than most theaters. In addition, Frist Theatre, where UFO shows its movies, is only a few minutes from students' dormitories.
Langsam said she was not sure how many students would take advantage of the shuttle but warned of its limited capacity.
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