UCSC Student ID Card Use on Santa Cruz Metro Buses

Showing a valid UCSC Student I.D. Card provides students unlimited rides on Santa Cruz Metro buses. Metro service for students is funded through the Student Transit Fee. Student ID cards are issued through the ID Card Services office located on the first floor of the Bay Tree Bookstore building in between the Digital Copy Center and the Express Store. Contact ID Card Services by calling 831-459-2990 or idcards@ucsc.edu

A valid quarter sticker is necessary when showing your UCSC Student ID Card to ride Metro buses; stickers are available each quarter at your college office or board of study.

TAPS provides temporary bus passes to each college at the start of Fall and Winter quarters for new students that have not obtained their Student ID Card; new students receive temporary bus passes in their college orientation packets.

UCSC ID Card validation Stickers are accepted on Metro buses as follows:

• Summer 2009 stickers are valid through Wednesday, September 30, 2009.

• Spring 2009 stickers are valid through Sunday, October 11, 2009.

• Fall 2009 stickers are valid starting September 1, 2009; continuing students can obtain
Fall 2009 stickers from their college office beginning September 1, 2009.

• Temporary bus passes for new students are lime green and are valid 9/1/09 through Sunday, October 11, 2009.

About Fall 2009 Stickers

• Fall 2009 Sticker (Red) is valid September 1 through Monday, January 11, 2010.

• All continuing students get Fall validation stickers from their department/college office starting 9/1/09.

• New Undergraduate students who took their photos during Summer Orientation can pick up their ID Cards at their college office starting 9/18/09.

• New Graduate students take photos and get ID Cards at ID Card Services from 9/7/09 – 9/11/09.