An $8 student transit fee was assessed beginning during the 1999-2000 school year to fund the campus routes. The system asked for federal assistance and was reborn as Razorback Transit in 1989. This system was named the University of Arkansas Transit and almost fell victim to budget cuts in 1988. In 1980, the Facilities Management office overseeing the transit operation acquired five more buses and established five fixed routes. The shuttle vehicles were traded for repurposed school buses by the mid-1970s that primarily provided rides from outlying parking lots to the center of campus. The chair of the committee, 'Mack' McLarty, became president of the student government during the 1967-68 school year, and he launched a trial transit system using shuttles. The committee surveyed students and found that 70 percent said they would use a transit system. Growth in the number of students living off-campus meant more students were driving to campus, but new parking lots to serve them were further away from the central academic buildings. In 1966, the university's Associated Student Government appointed a transit committee to make recommendations regarding an on-campus transit system. It ran a bus between campus and the Fayetteville Square on a fixed schedule during the early 1950s. The first bus system serving on the University of Arkansas campus was a private operation called the University-City Bus Service. Standard service includes eleven fixed routes serving the campus of the University of Arkansas in addition to other destinations within Fayetteville, Arkansas. Razorback Transit provides both fixed route bus and paratransit service. The University of Arkansas Razorback Transit System operates 19 routes (11 standard fixed routes, 6 reduced routes, 2 Razorback football gameday routes) on the campus and vicinity of the University. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Northwest Arkansas Mall, Dickson Street, residence halls, educational buildings A Razorback Transit bus in service, November 2012ĭonald W.

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