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Transportation

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Best Ways to Get Around Town
  • Bicycling never hurt anyone.
  • Get your own car.
  • Steal a friend's.
  • Walk.
Best Ways to Get to the Airport
  • A cab ride to the airport cost about $40.
  • Take I-64 West to the Norfolk International Airport exit. Cabs will also shuttle students there.

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

Old Dominion itself does an okay job at providing shuttles for students. ODU has expanded its shuttle route to include off-campus locations like Kroger and MacArthur Mall, and the campus-route shuttles run every 15 minutes or so. They are slow, but they run until 11:15 p.m. As mostly a commuter school, there is very little demand for a huge army of buses. Luckily, every student at ODU gets free access to the buses if they simply have an ODU student ID. They are able to use the Hampton Roads Transit buses as well, which have a more expansive route than ODU’s Blue Route.

Most students complain of having to wait for the buses, seeing as they don’t make frequent stops, but that’s just a negative in the packaged deal that is public transportation. Still, public transportation may be the only way some students are able to get around. Although it may take a week or so to learn the routes and such of the buses, when that’s taken care of, life on campus without a car becomes that much easier.

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Transportation at Old Dominion University

kkent003

'13

Special Education and Teaching

3.8
B+

ODU

buses run very regularly. has a good saferide service.

Feb 05, 2012

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Transportation at Old Dominion University

apete030

'13

Elementary Education

3.1
B-

ODU Transportation

People, either, walk, drive, or take the bus, but rarely.

Feb 02, 2012

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Transportation at Old Dominion University

trdickerson93

'15

Psychology & Counseling

4.6
A

Shuttles

Transportation is actually very decent. We have shuttle buses that appear every 5 minutes and buses on the Hampton Transit bus line but also a train that we take for free.

Jan 13, 2012

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Student Survey Poll ResultsWhat's This?

Rate the cost of the following transit options

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Rate the convenience of long-distance transportation to travel between home and school

How convenient is the campus-provided transportation?

How necessary is it to have a car on campus?

How easy is it to get around town?

Campus ShuttleWhat's This?

ODU Shuttle Bus Service

http://www.odu.edu/af/parking/transportation/shuttle.shtml Blue Route (On Campus) A bus will leave Whitehurst and Gresham Halls every 15 minutes, starting at 7:30 AM. The designated route will take approximately 25 minutes to complete. Blue "Campus Shuttle Signs" with silver lettering denote BLUE Route. Express Route (On Campus Route, NEW) The Express Route is designed to help students have quick access to and from the Convocation Center Garage (C) and North Village Garage (D) Begins at two spots on the East side of Hampton Blvd (near Garage C & Garage D) Delivers students to the southeast corner of Webb Center The designated route will take approximately 5-10 minutes. MacArthur Weekend Route A bus will leave Old Dominion Inn every hour on the hour going to the MacArthur Mall in downtown Norfolk, starting at 6:00 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. On Sunday, the bus starts at noon and stops at 6:00 p.m. The bus will leave the mall every half-hour.

683-4063

Blue Route: Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–12 a.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.

MacArthur Weekend Route: Thursday 6 p.m.-11 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 6:30 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday 12 p.m.-6 p.m.

Public TransitWhat's This?

Norfolk Electric Transit (NET)

NET buses run every six to eighteen minutes. Monday-Friday 6:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday Noon-Midnight; Sunday Noon-8 p.m.

www.norfolk.gov/Visitors/net.asp

Hampton Roads Transit (HRT)

Free local bus service

(757) 222-6100

683-4004 (for University program information)

www.hrtransit.org/routesschedules.html

Nearest AirportWhat's This?

Norfolk International Airport

Norfolk International Airport is 10 miles and 20 minutes from ODU.

2200 Norview Ave.

(757) 857-3351

www.norfolkairport.com

Nearest Passenger BusWhat's This?

Greyhound

The Greyhound Trailways Bus Terminal is in Downtown Norfolk on the same street as MacArthur Mall. It is approximately 3 miles from campus.

(757) 231-2222

www.greyhound.com

Nearest Passenger TrainWhat's This?

Amtrak

Downtown Norfolk, Monticello Avenue

(800) 872-7245

www.amtrak.com

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