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Customer Service: 245.5555
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Campus Routes & Maps

Intermission
There is no service on any Campus Route between the semesters (May 9-30).  Please access the CARTS schedule for local San Marcos service during this time.  Remember that rides on the CARTS bus to and from campus are free when you show their driver your Texas State I.D.
Summer Semesters 2013 (I: June 3 - July 3 and II: July 8 - August 8)
Service will resume for Summer I on June 3; you may link to a complete timetable here; updated maps will be added by May 30.
 
Spring Semester 2013 (January 14 - May 8)

Campus Route Service and bus stops (MAP)
The Spring 2013 Campus system map link above provides a visual overview for bus routes and service stops.  Specific information for each route is contained below.  Summer 2013 maps will be updated at this location by May 30.
 
General Information:
There are two Bobcat Tram campus routes:   Bobcat Stadium and Campus Loop. Both of these routes depart campus from the Quad bus loop at the large shelter next to the Music building. These routes service the perimeter parking lots, provide a means of cross-campus travel. Additional service is available Monday through Thursday via Night bus routes.
 
10 - Bobcat Stadium           
 
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: - Bobcat Stadium route is moved to the Bobcat Trail Shelter (in front of Beretta Hall next to the Commons Dining Hall)
This first bus departs from Bobcat Stadium East, then from Quad Bus Loop, providing service to Sessom Drive at State Street, (outbound service stop); Jowers; the Coliseum, (drop-off service provided after 11:00am); the Bobcat Stadium parking lots, (east and west shelters), H.E.B., Summit Apts, Bobcat Village, and Sessom Drive at Peques St, (inbound service stop).
 
11 - Campus Loop           

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: - Campus Loop route service will be from the Quad Bus Stop
1.   CARTS buses will provide the Campus Loop service and will continue the same daytime frequency, but new stops will be included. 
a.   New stops include Woods Street across from the Woods Street shelter (below Undergraduate Academic Center) and Lantana Hall on Edward Gary Street
b.   Discontinued stops include San Jacinto Hall on Woods Street and Which Wich.
c.   CARTS uses 25 foot green buses which are easier to navigate through the construction zone.
d.   CARTS buses provide ADA and bicycle access.
e.   Digital signage on the CARTS bus will display Route 11 – Campus Loop.
f.    The stop on Sessom Drive at Peques St. will remain closed due to construction.
2.   First Transit will provide one bus on this route if they can safely navigate the construction zone. This will not be known until the barricades are in place.
a.   The slightly smaller and older tram bus will serve this route during construction.
b.   No bicycle rack will be available to aid in the ability to pass through the construction zone.
 
This route provides counter-clockwise service around the campus perimeter. Service begins at the Quad Bus Loop and continues with service to Mitte Art; San Jacinto Hall; the Admissions Center; Which Wich; Sewell Park, and Sessom @ Peques.

 

Night Bus routes - Spring 2013

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE:  Night 3 route - If First Transit is unable to serve the turn on Sessom Drive, a modification to Night 3 service will be required and will be announced as soon as possible.

These routes provide late evening service Monday through Thursday to most Bobcat Tram bus stops! There are four buses departing from the Quad Bus Loop every 45-50 minutes beginning at 8:45 through 11:05 PM. Each route serves a different zone in town, (east, west, north or south); most BT City and Campus daytime bus stops are served by one of these bus routes. Night bus routes also provide service to campus for all buses departing campus until 10:20 PM; the last route leaving campus at 11:05 PM provides outbound service only and does not return to campus.

 

BT Shuttle Service Overview:

  1. Monday - Thursday service begins between 6:50-7:05 AM with last buses leaving campus between 7:45-7:55 PM.  Service is provided during all class days and during finals.  Reduced service levels are provided on Friday and usually end by 5:15pm.
  2. Night routes offer combined City and Residential shuttle service using four bus routes providing service between most BT Shuttle bus stops and campus between 8:45-10:20 PM.  The last departure from campus at 11:05 PM is outbound service only, (there are no passenger boardings once buses leave campus at this time; this last departure is designed to return passengers from campus to their final off-campus destination).  This service is operated Monday - Thursday only.
  3. Saturday service provides combined bus route service from most City and Residential shuttle stops to the Student Center.  Passengers can transfer between any of 6 bus routes at the Student Center for travel around the City of San Marcos or on the San Marcos marketplace Route with service to HEB, Target, the Outlet Mall, Sam's Club and many other retail areas; Route 46 provides service to Southpark Meadows in south Austin offering additional retail alternatives and connecting service on Capital Metro.  All Saturday route services are free to students, faculty and staff; you must show the driver your valid Texas State I.D. to ride to Austin free of charge on Saturday.  Spring service begins on January 26 and continues through May 4, 2013 during the spring semester.
  4. There is no Sunday service.