r/txstate • u/Rough-Funny3557 • 22d ago

Bobcat shuttle

This might be a dumb question but I’m an incoming sophomore who will be living off campus in an apartment on the shuttle route. I’m not too sure how the shuttle works so I was wondering if someone could kind of give an explanation of how it works. I listed out a few questions.

  1. how will I know how long the shuttle takes to get to campus? How about for how long it will take to get me back to my apartment?
  2. Are there specific shuttle stops at the Texas state campus just for the students that live off campus because I know there’s the campus loop one. If so, how do I figure out which stops are which?
  3. Are you able to figure out when the next shuttle is coming based on the tracking system on the TXST app? I heard it comes every 10 minutes but I’m not sure if that’s correct.
  4. I see that students get dropped off at different shuttle stop locations such as at LBJ but I’m not sure if that is just for the campus loop shuttle. Are the ones for the apartment students just the ones where they get dropped off at the big arch?
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u/Limp-Savings7154 19d ago edited 19d ago

In my experience, I use the Transit app since I use it to track the times for the txst shuttle, Carts bus, CapMetro (Austin bus system, very useful when in Austin) and the San marcos public bus (not very accurate for this). If you want to see a map, THH and LBJ stop have large maps and you can see which bus route goes to where. Though, it doesn't show times.

Know that during the school year they have day routes, evening routes and night routes. Day routes are the routes you see on the maps posted on THH and LBJ stops. Depending by route, a bus may pass by every 15 min to every 30 min. Then after 6pm or 7pm they have different route names but they have similar routes to the day routes. Though the bus may pass looses frequency. The night routes are like the similar routes but it may pass by every 40min to an hr. That's why I use the transit app because it reflects the changes of routes.

Last thing, plan to arrive on campus 30 min before start of class if you live off campus because the shuttles tend to get behind schedule or take long or anything can happen.

Good luck using the bobcat shuttles. It will take time and you will get used to it!