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Headquarters | 255 Governors Drive Amherst, Massachusetts |
Locale | Five Colleges of the Pioneer Valley |
Service area | Five Colleges campuses plus Amherst, Belchertown, Granby, Hadley, Northampton, South Deerfield, South Hadley and Sunderland |
Service type | Local bus transit, campus shuttle, field trip charter |
Alliance | Five Colleges |
Routes | 10 |
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Daily ridership | 8,400 (weekdays, Q4 2023)[1] |
Annual ridership | 2,280,500 (2023)[2] |
Fuel type | Diesel, hybrid electric |
General Manager | Glenn Barrington |
Website | UMass Transit Five College buses PVTA.com |
University of Massachusetts Transportation Services, abbreviated to UMass Transit Services or UMass Transit, is a department within the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) that provides mass transit services to the UMass Amherst campus and other members of the Five Colleges Consortium in eastern Hampshire County, as well as outlying towns. Similar to other large campus transportation systems, such as UGA Campus Transit in Georgia and Unitrans in California, UMass Transit buses are driven by students attending UMass Amherst. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 2,280,500, or about 8,400 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
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Hi! I'm Jared Ward, I'm a psychology, sociology, and communication here at UMass Boston, and I'm going to show you how to get to and around campus, whether you're taking public transportation, driving, biking, or walking. Our campus is growing as part of our 25-year master plan so if you're driving to campus, we encourage you to leave extra time for possible construction delays. When school is in session, we encourage you to drive directly to our Bayside Parking Lot. With plenty of parking spaces available, you won't waste time for a parking spot. If you're coming from the south, take Eye-93 North to Exit 14: Morrissey Boulevard -- JFK Library. The campus will be on your right. Go past the campus entrance and past BC High. Take a right at the first intersection you come to, which is Mount Vernon Street. After you take a right onto Mount Vernon Street, the UMass Boston Bayside parking lot will be on your left, just past the DoubleTree hotel. If you're coming from the north, take Eye-93 South to Exit 15: Columbia Road -- JFK Library. Take a left at the bottom of the exit ramp. You'll past the JFK -- UMass subway stop on your right. Go into the rotary and take your second right onto Day Boulevard. Now, take the next left, onto Mount Vernon Street. The UMass Boston Bayside Lot will be on your left, past the DoubleTree hotel. Go through the gate, park your car, and either get on the shuttle bus, or walk to campus. It takes about 10 or 15 minutes to walk to the Campus Center. The bus ride takes about five minutes. The buses run every five to seven minutes weekdays from 6-30 a-m to 10-30 p-m. You can track the buses online or via the downloadable app. Look for the Route 3 buses. You can get off at Lot C, across from the softball field, or you can take the bus to the Campus Center. If you need to get off at Lot C, just let your driver know. When you're ready to go back to the UMass Boston Bayside Lot, look for the Route 3 shuttle bus outside the Campus Center. You can also get on the bus at the rotary adjacent to the Clark Athletic Center. Again, look for the Route 3 shuttle bus. The UMass Boston Bayside Lot closes at 11 p.m. As you leave the lot, pay with cash, or, save money and use a prepaid parking pass. You can get them from the Office of Transportation Services, located on the second floor of the Quinn Administration Building, or at the UMass Boston Bookstore, which is located on the same level of the bus drop-off, in the Campus Center. Some of the main campus lots are only for people with pre-paid parking passes. You'll see those lots as you pass our soccer field and track. If you're taking the subway, take the MBTA's red line to the JFK -- UMass station. You can also take the Old Colony commuter rail to the JFK -- UMass station. Once you get off at the train platform, go up the stairs, out the turnstiles, and then down either the stairs or ramp to the waiting shuttle buses. Get on any Crystal Transport bus and take the five minute ride to campus. The bus will drop you in front of the Campus Center. This is where you'll need to go to get back to the JFK -- UMass station. Take either the Route 1 or the Route 2 shuttle bus from the Campus Center. The Route 2 shuttle also stops at the JFK Library and Presidential Museum. The Route 1 shuttle does not run on the weekends. You can also take the Route 8 M-B-T-A bus or the Route 16 M-B-T-A bus. We also have bike racks for those biking to campus, and during the spring, summer, and fall months, you can rent a bike through the Hubway share program. There are kiosks across from the Campus Center and at the JFK -- UMass station. For bus schedules, a downloadable map, and an interactive map, visit our website, at w-w-w- u-m-b dot --e-d-u.
Services
Fixed-route services
UMass Transit operates as a contractor for the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA), which is headquartered in Springfield, the largest municipality of the region. This setup exists because PVTA, as a regional transit authority established under Chapter 161B of the Massachusetts General Statutes, is forbidden under Section 25 of the same statute from operating routes directly. PVTA thus contracts with the school to operate certain routes (other routes in the system are operated by First Transit employees). UMass Transit buses in fixed route service are owned by the PVTA and are painted in their standard livery. These buses are numbered in the 3000 series, and are between 35 and 60 feet in length. The 60-feet buses were acquired in 2013 to accommodate student crowds on the North Pleasant Street through routes Gold 30 and Pink 31.[3]
Field trip services
In addition to operating tendered services for the PVTA, UMass Transit also maintains an activity fleet of buses of various types for charter by student groups within the UMass Amherst community. These buses are generally painted to match the school colors of white and maroon.
Fixed routes
The following routes are operated by UMass Transit Services on behalf of the PVTA. Most buses only display the destination.
UMass and Five Colleges routes
Route | Terminals | Via | Notes | |
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30[4] | N. Amherst Puffton Village |
Amherst Old Belchertown Road (before Harkness Road) |
North Pleasant Street, Main Street, Belchertown Road |
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31[5] | Sunderland Sugarloaf Estates |
S. Amherst The Boulders |
South Pleasant Street, North Pleasant Street, Amherst/Sunderland Road |
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34/35[6][7] | UMass Amherst Campus Shuttle | University Drive, Commonwealth Avenue, North Pleasant Street, East Pleasant Street, Eastman Lane, East Pleasant Street, Massachusetts Avenue |
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38[8] | Amherst Haigis Mall, UMass |
S. Hadley Mt. Holyoke College |
MA Route 116, North Pleasant Street |
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39[9] | Northampton Smith College |
S. Amherst Hampshire College |
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UMass Outreach routes
These routes, operated by UMass Transit, are targeted not toward the UMass student body, but towards the year-round local population in the area.
Route | Terminals | Via | Notes | |
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33[10] | Hadley Stop & Shop |
N. Amherst Mill Hollow Apartments/Puffers Pond |
Amity Street, East Pleasant Street, Eastman Lane, Cushman Center, Survival Center, North Pleasant Street |
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36[11] | Amherst
Olympia Drive/Mather Drive |
S. Amherst
Atkins Farms Market |
North Pleasant Street, MA Route 116, East Pleasant Street |
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45[12] | Amherst Physical Sciences Building, UMass |
Belchertown Belchertown Center |
North Pleasant Street, Main Street, Echo Hill/Gatehouse Road, Belchertown Road |
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46[13] | Amherst Studio Arts Building, UMass |
S. Deerfield Whately Park and Ride |
North Pleasant Street, Sunderland/Amherst Road, South Deerfield Center |
Fares
UMass Transit buses are not equipped with fareboxes or fare registers.
Students attending any colleges in the Five Colleges Consortium have a fee included in their tuition bills (service fee for UMass Amherst students and student activity fees for the other colleges) for each semester that prepays their bus fares for the semester and funds the Five Colleges bus system, along with fares on the B43 local route between Amherst College and Smith College via UMass. UMass Transit buses are free.
Holiday and school break service levels
While the population of Amherst is nominally 37,819 as per the 2010 census, that figure includes the student population of the Five Colleges, many of whom are only part-time residents and who account for approximately 60 percent of that figure. As such, when classes are not in session, service is greatly reduced and often suspended on many routes, and other routes will have service ending early.
All UMass Transit service is suspended on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. On other days when classes are not in session, UMass Transit routes operate on a reduced service schedule.
References
- ^ "Transit Ridership Report Fourth Quarter 2023" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. March 4, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ^ "Transit Ridership Report Fourth Quarter 2023" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. March 4, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ^ "UMass Transit Goes for Long Ride". September 12, 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
- ^ "PVTA Route 30 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 31 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 34 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 35 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 38 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 39 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 33 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 36 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 45 Schedule" (PDF).
- ^ "PVTA Route 46 Schedule" (PDF).
External links
- University of Massachusetts Transportation Services – official site