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Submitted by Just another voice on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 7:49pm.
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 - 7:55pm.this is great
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 9:25pm.Awesome!
Submitted by Logarithm on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 9:54pm.Evergreen has needed this for...
Submitted by The Original Yoda on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 11:16pm....a long time.
Awesome!
Very very cool
Submitted by Sarah on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 4:49am.Yeah - swords have two edges, though
Submitted by DrewHendricks on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 11:40am.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 - 11:51am.But I am Just Another Voice
Bus video policy
Submitted by Logarithm on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 1:11pm."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 - 5:42pm.Cool
Submitted by security_six on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 9:26pm.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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