NYU will reinstate Stuy Town bus route

NYU is planning more alterations to its bus systems. These changes follow student complaints about route and stop eliminations, and are the latest in a series of reforms to the bus schedule this semester.

Effective Nov. 30, Route C — which was eliminated at the beginning of the year — will be reinstated on weekday mornings from 7:15 to 11:15 a.m., and it will provide service southbound from Stuyvesant Town to campus. The route will include a stop at Third Avenue and 14th Street.

Also effective Nov. 30, the northbound and southbound Route E bus will stop at Third Avenue and 14th Street on weekdays from 3 p.m. to midnight.

Three bus routes were eliminated by the university at the beginning of the semester, primarily for financial reasons. But Jules Martin, the vice president for public safety, said funds were added to the Department of Public Safety's budget to reinstate Route C and part of Route E.

CAS senior Whitney Petrie is chair of the Student Senators Council, a chairperson for the University Committee on Student Life, and a member of the WSN Editorial Board. She was involved in proposing the service changes and said she was glad the university responded so quickly to student feedback.

"Sometimes it can take up to a full semester to a full year to see any progress," Petrie said. "It's definitely a very positive thing."