The last time Steve updated the terminal: July 2014 (CONSTANT WORK IN PROGRESS)

Since July 1, 2011, First Transit provides the INTER-campus bus service for Rutgers University. Academy will continue to provide SOME other charter services on Rutgers, which includes the Campus Tours, Football games, and the Summer Sports Camps. Academy will use their own buses for this... which will include former campus buses (LF NOVAs and LF New Flyer Articulated buses with the Rutgers logo removed; but SOME still in the Rutgers colors), NJ Transit NOVAs (with all references of NJ Transit blackened out), NJ Transit NABIs (with all references of NJ Transit blackened out), and/or Academy MCIs. First Transit has taken over providing service for most of the University charter/special event functions on campus (which include the Winter/Summer Career Day events, Open House, Rutgers Day, and University Commencement).

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FIRST TRANSIT NEWS RELEASE



INFORMATION/SECTIONS CURRENTLY UPDATED:

>>GATE 1:

-With the merger of the UMDNJ schools/buildings/departments to Rutgers, there are NO current plans (AS OF 7/1/2013) to change any of the ACTUAL/CURRENT bus routes (on the Rutgers New Brunswick/Piscataway side of things).

Still:

-No changes in regular bus counts (at peak; Monday-Thursday):

A at 5, B at 6 (5 B's and the 1 B-He), C at 1, EE at 5, F at 6, H at 4, LX at 9, REXB at 4, and REXL at 5.

Good: You (still) shouldn't have a problem getting a bus between College Ave & Livingston.

Bad: The LX will STILL show up MORE FREQUENTLY than that B/REXL (if you're on Livingston) or A/EE/F/H (if you're on College Avenue). This bothered some students early on during Fall 2011, as the # of LX buses purely outnumbered other SINGULAR route. HOWEVER, note that between College Ave & Busch, there are 9 buses TOTAL COMBINED servicing those two campuses (5 A + 4 H), and 11 (5 EE & 6F) doing College Ave& Cook/Douglass. Yes, the A & H routes are different, and so are the EE and F, but the basic premises of which campuses they service remains the same. In actuality, the # of buses between College Avenue & Livingston had been less since Fall 2010 up until Spring 2012 (7-8). The LX peak of 9 starting Fall 2012 will bring it even/make it more equal to the combined A/H <College Ave & Busch> and EE/F <College Ave & Douglass-Cook>.



>>GATE 2: 7/23/2014: SUMMER SCHEDULE ADJUSTED.

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TO BE UPDATED (EVENTUALLY):

>>Discussion of the hours of bus service (Gate 6).

>>Discussion about the former 'whereismybus.com' (Gate 8)

SOME INFO ABOUT THE NEW RUTGERS BUS ONLINE TRACKING SYSTEM:

>>All links to whereismybus.com on this bus info/fan site have been removed from the route descriptions/sections in Gates 1 and 2. Rutgers students/facutly/staff will be able to use a much better system to track the buses online. Whereismybus.com slowly became more a nuisance than an aid, with the system unable to display the buses (at all or not properly) as time progressed. The system hit a slight low when most of it wasn't working during the Fall 2005 semester. (Thus the reason why I removed the links on this site.) Fear not, as something new will replace the whereismybus system that had been in place for since 2002, and it's called "Nextbus." This was hinted on/talked about on and off throughout the University's newspaper, "The Daily Targum," so this isn't sudden and new to some people. Go to "www.nextbus.com" to learn more about the system that IS IN place eventually for the Rutgers community. Other cities/organizations/universities already use the Nextbus system. Having this for one of the more sizable transit systems in the country will greatly help!

One of the main differences between whereismybus and Nextbus is that you will be able to see the approximate arrival times of the buses to a particular stop... in actual minutes. With WIMB, you HAD TO guess how long it would take for a bus to get there based on the bus icon and its position on the map. Nextbus will take some of the guesswork out of your way. You still do need to have a basic understanding of what schedule is in service; and the buses' general hours of operation (for example; it would be completely useless looking for a C bus at say 2 AM; a good 99.99% of the time)

Keep in mind that Nextbus isn't perfect either (but it's a much bigger improvement to WIMB). Everything DOES have its limitations!