Bob Roberts Reporting
CHICAGO (WBBM) – Pace will be going all-out this summer to get students aboard its buses.
The suburban bus service has offered its “Campus Connection Pass” to college students the rest of the year, but never in summer. Spokesman Patrick Wilmot says this summer it will be offered, at a rate of $140 for three months.
“The pass is not accepted on CTA or Metra, but for those who can use Pace exclusively, it’s really a great value,” Wilmot said.
Pace has already been marketing a pass to high school students, the “Student Summer Hall Pass,” at a rate of $45 for three months, good only on weekdays. But Wilmot said it will now have a new benefit. It will be good any day of the week on its 284/Schaumburg-Great America-Gurnee Express bus.
“This is a great way to boost sales of the pass and also ridership on this route to Great America,” Wilmot said.
Students must provide proof of enrollment in order to buy the passes.
In other action Wednesday, the Pace Board approved the consolidation of its 891 and 892 routes, which run from Gary and East Chicago to the United Parcel Service sorting facility in Hodgkins. It also approved an agreement under which the village of Oswego will underwrite the full costs of the 907/Oswego-Aurora Transportation Center rush hour shuttle.
The three routes are the only Pace lines that run outside of the six-county Pace service area, with the exception of the Hammond Transit Center terminus of the 350/Sibley and 364/159th Street buses.
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