O.U.T. Releases Summer Routes and Schedule

O.U.T. has announced their 2011 summer schedule with buses running from 6:15 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. The new routes will start on May 16, 2011. The summer bus schedule can be viewed on the following website: http://
www.oxfordms.net/component/content/article/6/220-summer-bus-routes-and-times.html.

The O.U.T. bus provides public transit to the Oxford and University community and offers free fare for University students and faculty (with I.D.). Adult riders pay a modest fee of $1.00 and there are monthly passes for $30. “I take the O.U.T. bus because parking has gotten so bad on campus, it is convenient because I live near a bus stop. and its free,” said Lee Smith a senior English major from Madison, MS.

O.U.T uses Nextbus, which tracks the positioning of a bus and keeps riders abreast with any changes in the bus schedule. Riders can access Nextbus on smart phones, through text message, on the website mentioned above, or on http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/stopSelector.jsp?a=oxford-ms. “We are now happy that students, faculty and community riders are now able to look on the internet, call or look on their mobile devices to see when the next bus is arriving and it’s current location.” said Cory Washington from the Office of Campus Sustainability.

O.U.T has four routes that run throughout the school year, including the blue, red, orange, and yellow routes. The blue route runs from Wal-Mart to Brittany Woods along Jackson, making stops at the Student Union and the Square along the way. The yellow route runs from Hawthorn and Anderson to the Ole Miss campus. The orange route runs from Thacker Road and The Links to the University campus. The red route, the only route that does not pass through campus, runs along North and South Lamar and College Hill Road, stopping off at the Square and is the only route that does not run to the University campus.

The green route runs from Old Taylor to the University campus on Monday through Friday only, stopping off at the newly installed South Lot on Old Taylor Road. The South Lot parking was put in place to help with the parking problems that still hamper commuters.

Oxford University Transit has announced that they will not be running the orange route in the summer, but will start service on the orange line beginning in the fall.