About the Long Marine Lab Shuttle

The Long Marine Lab Shuttle will not be operating during the Fall 2009 quarter, as ridership levels continued to decline for the third year in a row. Ridership for 2008-09 totaled only 741 passengers; On a per-rider basis, the LML Shuttle cost more than $56 per ride. TAPS cannot continue to operate this underutilized service.

Instead, we suggest two other means of travel between the Main Campus and the Marine Science Campus: Santa Cruz Metro bus service, and Zimride.

SCMTD's UC Westside Route 20 bus provides hourly service weekdays from 7:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., and weekends from 8:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., to Delaware and Natural Bridges (with some runs to Pacific Shores, across the tracks on Shaffer Road). Additional "supplemental" weekday bus service is provided by the Route 20D. Detailed schedules and a route map are available on the SCMTD web site.

Additionally, Zimride, a Facebook-based application, provides ridematching (on a regular or occasional basis) to members of the UCSC community. Zimride is a simple tool to help people share rides to common destinations. Zimride even includes a link to ZipCar, providing an easy means for combining ride-matching and car-sharing. Information about Zimride is available here.