This past September, the TCSA took over the administration of Transit at Trent University from the Office of Student Affairs. Improvements were made immediately, such as the Transit Pass extension through the summer, but we want to make more, and we need your help! This is your opportunity to let us know how to improve the transportation service to meet the needs of Trent Students Not only will completing the survey help us construct a better service, but you will have a chance to win a new BlackBerry PlayBook! Responses will be collected until March 16th, 2012.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/tcsatransitsurvey

For updates on weather interruptions to bus service, please visit the main page at trentu.ca.

In order to address accessibility for Trent students, staff and faculty, the TCSA and Peterborough Transit were asked to incorporate into the East Bank service a stop at the DNA Building. Beginning January 7th, with the weekend service, the new DNA stop will come into effect. The new service route will see the bus travel past Pioneer Road (current route to Gzowski) and continue instead on Nassau Mills Road to East Bank Drive (Otonabee College entrance). The bus will continue along this road up to the DNA Building stop before continuing to Gzowski.

This accommodation will increase the time of the outbound trip (terminal to Trent) by 5 minutes. This increase in trip time means we can no longer run a nice "every twenty minutes" schedule for the East Bank, so please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the new schedule. The addition of a DNA stop impacts the East Bank, West Bank (late night buses), weekend and holiday schedules. All new schedules are now posted at trentcentral.ca. Please feel free to email bus@trentcentral.ca with any questions or concerns with this new service and we will address and adjust things where possible. We ask for your patience with the new schedules as we work out conflicts that may arise.

Please note that the TCSA office will be closed starting December 23rd and will reopen on January 9th. Thank you everyone, and have a fantastic holiday! Read more...

Exam Schedules:

East and West bank exam bus schedules are now available at trentcentral.ca and posted outside of the TCSA office. These schedules indicate the buses that have been added to the existing East and West bank weekday and weekend regular service. The additional exam buses will be in effect from December 9 through to 21. Please note that the times listed on the exam bus schedules are departure times.

Extended Library Hours:

Beginning Wednesday December 7th, there will be two additional buses to accommodate the extended library hours (please see Trentu.ca/admin/library/about/hours.html for library hours). There will be one bus leaving Bata Library at 1:15 a.m. and one bus leaving at 2:15 a.m. The buses will be completing the West bank route inbound (to the Downtown Terminal) only. These additional buses will run seven days a week with the last day of service to accommodate the final day of extended hours on Tuesday December 20, 2011.

Pub Buses:

The last pub bus of the year will depart from the Downtown Terminal at 2:00am on December 10th.

Holiday Hours:

The regular East and West bank bus schedules will be in effect up to and including December 23rd. There will be no Trent Express service from December 24th until January 6th. Normal service will resume with the Weekend schedule on January 7th.

East and West bank exam bus schedules are now available at trentcentral.ca and posted outside of the TCSA office. These schedules indicate the buses that have been added to the existing East and West bank weekday and weekend regular service. The additional exam buses will be in effect from December 9 through to 21. Please note that the times listed on the exam bus schedules are departure times. Read more...

The TCSA Health and Dental Benefits Opt-out cheques will be distributed in the Great Hall, Champlain College, on Wednesday November 9th, and Thursday November 10th from 10am-4pm. TCSA members (full time undergraduate and consecutive education students) who opted out of the Health and/or Dental Benefits plan will be eligible to pick-up their cheque at these times. Please bring your student card or transit pass to receive your cheque; students without proper student ID will be asked to pick-up their cheque the following week. Students unable to pick up their cheque during the above scheduled times can do so in the TCSA office, Champlain College, until April 2012. Those requesting a direct deposit will receive their refund by week’s end.

GO service to operate as usual; no labour disruption

Metrolinx has successfully reached an agreement with the Amalgamated Transit Union and all GO Transit service will operate as usual on Monday, October 24.

Metrolinx and GO Transit thank customers and the public for their patience during the labour negotiation process.<

As of September 3, 2011, Go Transit will be implementing changes to the bus and train schedules. Changes affecting service at Trent University Symon's campus directly are listed below:

• There will be two express buses leaving Trent University every Friday at 1455h and 1708h travelling straight to Oshawa and arriving at 1600h and 1813h respectively.
• There will be two express buses leaving Oshawa at 1321h and 1521h travelling straight to Trent University arriving at 1426h and 1626h respectively.

For full details of service/schedule changes please see the attached PDF or visit the Go Transit Website at http://www.gotransit.com.

Questions or concerns can be directed to bus@trentcentral.ca.

Please note that beginning Monday, August 8th, there will no longer be a 3:20 West Bank bus departing from Trent University. This additional bus was originally added to accommodate students attending summer classes, which have now ended.

In addition, the paving at Bata Library is near completion. The normally scheduled West Bank service will resume Monday morning, August 8th. Thank you everyone for your patience with this matter.

Questions or concerns may be directed to bus@trentcentral.ca.

Effective Monday May 9th 2011, the Trent Express and all Peterborough City buses can be accessed throughout the summer using your 2010-2011 student card. Read more...

Peterborough Transit bus passes, monthly and ten ride, will be sold in the Trent Central Student Association office beginning April 11th. Monthly passes cost $50, ten rides $20. Our office is located in Champlain College, down the hall from the bookstore, room S110. Office hours are Monday to Friday 9am-4pm. Read more...