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Travel Like an Aggie: A Student Transportation Guide

Abigail Julianna Loomis — August 02, 2023 - 4:25pm

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A ‘Golden Ticket’ for Unitrans’ 100 Millionth Rider

Cody Kitaura — March 05, 2024 - 10:58am

Unitrans’ 100 millionth rider was “just trying to go to class” when she was notified she had helped the transit system reach a major milestone.

Unitrans To Celebrate 100 Millionth Rider on 56th Anniversary

Julia Ann Easley — February 20, 2024 - 3:35pm

Unitrans will be hosting an event to celebrate its 100 millionth rider and its 56th anniversary on Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Memorial Union Bus Terminal.

Unitrans Ready to Flip the Switch

Dave Jones — September 19, 2022 - 9:04pm

Unitrans is charged up and ready to start carrying passengers in its first six electric buses!

Thanks for the Lift, Unitrans!

Dave Jones — March 08, 2022 - 2:15pm

Unitrans gave all of us a lift Friday (March 4) — and we’re not just talking about the free rides all day throughout the campus-city bus system.

Unitrans Plans a Vintage Birthday Party

Dave Jones — March 01, 2022 - 7:01am

After being sidelined for nearly two years because of the coronavirus pandemic, Unitrans’ vintage double-deckers from London — iconic symbols of �ٺ��Ƶ — are going back to work.

You can ride them on a free lunchtime shuttle service between the Memorial Union Terminal and downtown from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Friday (March 4) in celebration of the campus-city transit system’s 54th birthday.

Unitrans Will Lose Bus-Arrival Prediction Service for Most Routes, Temporarily

Dave Jones — February 15, 2022 - 11:42am

Unitrans is alerting its riders that its popular bus-arrival prediction service will start to degrade as early as next Tuesday, Feb. 22, and go down completely by the end of February, affecting almost all routes.

The outage is expected to last until late April or early May, said Jeff Flynn, general manager of Unitrans, the ASUCD-operated bus system serving the campus and city.

Campus Gets Creative to Find Student Employees

Julia Ann Easley — October 12, 2021 - 6:34pm

In January 2020, Celia Murillo Amezcua started as a conductor for Unitrans’ double-decker buses. And then the pandemic led to remote instruction and bus service reductions. Last May, the senior became the human resources manager for the student-run bus service. And now she is among those challenged to recruit hundreds of students to part-time jobs still vacant three weeks after the start of the fall quarter and return to in-person instruction.

Unitrans Reroutes E Line Through Downtown

Dave Jones — July 26, 2021 - 6:26pm

Unitrans’ rerouted its E Line last week for improved reliability through downtown Davis and out to Covell Boulevard. The campus-city transit system also announced minor schedule changes on other lines and the elimination of the youth fare starting Monday (Aug. 2).

The E Line rerouting had also been scheduled for implementation Aug. 2, with the start of Summer Session II, but was moved up to July 21 because of downtown construction.

The Electrification of ASUCD Unitrans

Dave Jones — October 13, 2020 - 11:29am

ASUCD Unitrans recently received a federal grant to buy five more battery electric buses, which means the campus-city transit system now has funding for 11 of the buses — three shy of the first major milestone on the way to electrifying the fleet and achieving greater sustainability.

The $3.76 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration will cover 80 percent of the cost of five buses; student fees will pay the remainder.