The USG and Public Safety are implementing several changes in transportation options available to the campus, including late-night service from campus to the Princeton Junction Train Station. The USG is researching other possible changes, especially weekly service to Wal-Mart and other Route 1 stores.
Starting this week, students will no longer have to worry about missing the last Dinky from Princeton Junction. An expansion of the P-Rides shuttle service will be on-call to pick students up from the Junction after Dinky service ends.
The last dinky leaves Princeton Junction at 12:51 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, meaning students attending events in New York or Philadelphia previously had to start home by well before midnight to avoid paying the cab fare back to campus.
"This was introduced in response to student feedback we received, and we hope this will allow more students to enjoy what New York and Philadelphia offer," Associate Director of Public Safety Donald Reichling said.
Independent of the Department of Public Safety, the USG hopes to launch a once-weekly service from campus to Wal-Mart and other Route 1 stores for students without cars on campus.
This service "will be especially useful to the Class of 2007, which is not allowed to have cars on campus," USG President Pettus Randall '04 said.
The USG is working with the Princeton Airporter Company to arrange use of their cars for the new shuttle, which Randall hopes will begin after fall break. Funding for the new service will come either from the USG or, alternately, the larger retail stores at which the shuttle will stop.
"We're encouraging larger retail stores, such as Wal-Mart, to make a donation, because this does benefit their stores," Randall said.
The new Princeton Junction and Route 1 routes are not the only new offerings to the on-campus transportation options.
Public Safety recently introduced P-Rides Express, which will take over routes and times formerly served by the Student Escort Shuttle.
"P-Rides Express had absorbed most of the traffic that used to use the Student Escort Shuttle, so it made sense," Reichling said.
P-Rides express runs continuously from Monday — Friday from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. on a loop from Stanhope Hall to student parking lots, and runs on-call on Saturday night, also from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
The changes in the P-Rides Express service occurred after the USG took up the issue of on-campus transportation options in the spring. At that time, a Public Safety Advisory committee co-chaired by Jeff Yellin '04 and Director of Public Safety Steven Healy was formed.
The committee was formed, "because the current system does not look out for undergraduate student needs. We're hoping for an overhaul that's analogous to what the grad students were able to push for," Chair of the Undergraduate Life Committee William Robinson '04 said.
The committee will meet for the first time in November.
Despite the recent changes in the P-Rides system, Robinson said he still feels that there are issues that need to be addressed, including the need for better advertisement of routes and schedules.
There is also, Robinson said, a need for the shuttles to run continuously and make all stops on their routes.
"Currently, they often drive right through the parking lot if they don't immediately see a student," he said.
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