Student leaders announced on Instagram the return of the Boston/Cambridge shuttle service. The service will begin again on Friday, Feb. 17, according to the post.
“Thank you Chief Rushton for all your hard work bringing back the Boston/Cambridge shuttle and ensuring our safety,” reads the post.
Public Safety Chief Matthew Rushton was in charge of spearheading the initiative to bring back the shuttle. At the Student Union Town Hall event on Feb. 2, Student Union President Peyton Gillespie spoke of Rushton’s efforts in securing both short-term and long-term solutions to maintaining the shuttle service on campus. This included looking into different providers that the university could collaborate with to outsource the shuttle service. Gillespie also shared during the town hall that Rushton collaborated with students to understand the needs of the community.
The Student Union Instagram post updated students on the new schedule the service will be running on. The shuttle will still make two stops—one in Cambridge and another in Boston—before looping back to campus. The service will operate on a hour-and-a-half loop starting at 12:30 p.m. on Fridays. Transportation to Cambridge and Boston will run Friday through Sunday, with the last shuttle arriving at Brandeis at 11 p.m., according to the post.
Friday service for the Boston/Cambridge shuttle will begin at 12:30 p.m., leaving the university from the Usdan shuttle stop across from the Rabb stairs. The last Friday shuttle returns to the university at 1:45 a.m., according to the post. The Saturday shuttle begins at 11 a.m. and runs on the hour-and-a-half time table until 1:45 a.m., according to the post. Finally, the Sunday schedule begins with the first shuttle departing at 9 a.m. and the final returning back to the university at 11 p.m., according to the post.
To stay up to date with the shuttle’s location, students can use a QR code to download the TripShot app—a management program that allows the tracking of transportation services—onto their cellular devices. Community members who want to track the shuttle must have the app downloaded on their Android or iOS device, reads the post.
The service was suspended in November 2022 after a collision injured 26 students to varying degrees and killed one community member, according to a previous Brandeis Hoot article. The previous company outsourced to drive the shuttles was Joseph’s Transportation.
The Hoot reached out to Rushton and Gillespie for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
