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'Nightline' Late-Night Transit Pilot Project

Submitted by Just another voice on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 6:49pm.

Starting April 4, The Evergreen State College, in contract with Intercity Transit, will begin a pilot project to provide late-night transit between the campus and downtown.

The Nightline will run on Fridays and Saturdays between Midnight and 3AM; on Sundays between 9PM and Midnight. The service will serve along the existing Route 41, with an extension through downtown up to Puget Street, then looping back down State to the Olympia Transit Center.

The late-night Nightline will be open to the public, when they pay the regular fare. Students with Evergreen ID can ride for free. The service is provided by Intercity Transit through a contract with the College, which is financed through a student transit fee enhancement, approved by over 25% of the student body at Evergreen last spring.

This pilot project will begin April 4, and end June 15. If the program works out, and ridership is good, the service is expected to continue. The program is designed to prevent drinking and driving, as well as provide a safe ride home to students on campus late at night.

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Thanks for the report.

Submitted by Rob Richards on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 6:55pm.

This is great. I think public transportation is a serious way to combat drunk driving.

this is great

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 8:25pm.

I think this is a useful improvement to the IT system. Do you know what the frequency of runs for the extended hours on this route will be?

Awesome!

Submitted by Logarithm on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 8:54pm.

Thanks for the heads up!

Evergreen has needed this for...

Submitted by The Original Yoda on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 10:16pm.

...a long time.

Awesome!

Very very cool

Submitted by Sarah on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 3:49am.

This is a wonderful project, will help so many people.

Yeah - swords have two edges, though

Submitted by DrewHendricks on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 10:40am.

Now that 25-30 of IT's 50-70 buses have surveillance cameras installed, and these cameras can be monitored by police (in real time or through data DVDs requested via letter) it's a great idea to increase the exposure of Evergreen students to the systems.

How else would Verint be expected to create its facial recognition databases?

One thing of note is that of the 25 buses I have personally documented on the TESC routes in the last month, only two did not have the new camera systems. I don't happen to consider that to be a coincidence. More hyper-local reporting on this topic is coming soon.

Every bus I have been on to

Submitted by Just another voice on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 10:51am.

Every bus I have been on to TESC has never had a camera system installed. Hundreds of buses go to TESC every month. Were you documenting during your regular commute? That would explain why you always get a bus with cameras, since the buses are on a rotation schedule. And why would the police want to monitor the bus video? What I find interesting about your comment is that you think the police have time to go through thousands of hours of bus video to 'look for faces.' The police can also just go to the TESC Police and look through the student ID system if they are looking for a particular person, that way they can get their name and everything else. I enjoy the conspiracy theory, though.

But I am Just Another Voice

Bus video policy

Submitted by Logarithm on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 12:11pm.

Agreed. I'm sure this article won't calm the fears of the conspiracy theorists, but for anyone else who's interested, here's the bus video policy:

"A supervisor only will retrieve the hard drive when a manager learns of a customer complaint, if there’s a crash involving a bus, or if there’s a crime and a manager decides an investigation is warranted.

Intercity Transit’s human resources director will audit the retrieval of the hard drives each month.

Employees who violate video storage, retrieval and review policies could be fired."

Excellent idea

Submitted by Guglielmo on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 4:42pm.

Perhaps they can provide Groucho Marx glasses for those worried about video survielance. Our downtown bars can provide them with the revenue from all the extra PBR sales.

Cool

Submitted by security_six on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 8:26pm.

I take the 41 bus home most of the time, get off at the Handy Pantry and walk down past GRUB to the marina.

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