The Chicago Express, Northwestern’s Saturday Intercampus shuttle service, will begin its pilot program this weekend. According to a statement from University Services Manager Marge Grzeszczuk, one bus will run every one-hour and 50 minutes, and will include stops at SPAC, Sheridan and Noyes, The Arch, Sheridan and Emerson, Tech Institute, Pearson and DeWitt, Columbus and Monroe, and more.
“Downtown locations have [been] selected for close proximity to Chicago’s points of interest,” Grzeszczuk said. “This service will be open to students, faculty and staff that show a valid WildCARD.”
The program has two schedules, one of which will start at 12 p.m. and run through 11:03 p.m., and another which will start at 4 p.m. and run to 10:29 p.m.
The Chicago Express will run for the remaining Saturdays in October and every Saturday in November. Pending the success of the pilot program, the shuttle could continue past that date. The pilot program was approved by Northwestern’s budget-planning committee in April.
More to come.
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