Pomona College
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Transportation

Around campus, we have campus security available to drive us late at night (for example if we don't feel safe or are injured) and injured student drivers to drive injured students to classes and sometimes meals. This service is of course free. We can also call the $1 Cab which runs on the Claremont Colleges. This service is obviously $1. Biking is rather popular, and we have a free service called Green Bikes that rents bicycles out to students for a semester (you must return it and reapply the following semester). Otherwise, most people walk.

Locally, we have regular taxi cabs and the Metrolink, which can take us one way toward Riverside and the other way from LA. From Union Station, you could go pretty much anywhere. For youth (ages 6-18), it is $8.50 to get to LA on weekdays and $6.50 on weekends. For adults between the ages of 18 and 64, it is always $8.50. For $35/yr, you can also rent Zipcars 24/7 if you are eighteen and have a license. There is free gas (for the first 180 miles) and insurance. However, rates are $8/hr or $66/day if you wish to rent and use one. Orrr you could use your own car if you have one.

For long-distance travel, Ontario Airport is a fifteen-minute drive from campus, and Super Shuttles ($21) or the Pitzer Transportation Coalition ($8) can easily take you there or pick you up right outside your dorm. The Amtrak thruway bus services can also pick you up at the Claremont Metrolink Station (less than 500 feet from the southwest end of campus) if you are taking a train. Amtrak is very clean, reliable, and convenient, and I would recommend it. Prices are cheap, especially if you sign up for a Student Advantage card (http://www.studentadvantage.com/discountcard/). It is $50 for four years ($40 for three years, etc.), and it paid for itself within two public transportation trips for me. If relying on Greyhound, the station is a 1.2-mile walk from the southwest end of campus. However, although it is VERY cheap ($32 for my round-trip bus ticket to visit my cousins in Bakersfield) my experience with Greyhound has been rather sketchy and very unreliable, and I do not recommend it.

Transportation

bus, metrolink, zipcars available. don't really need cars, so most people don't bring them and just use zipcars, which are really nice.

I’ve taken the bus to and from the...

I’ve taken the bus to and from the Montclair Mall. It just took about six times as long as it would have by car. At least having the transportation center just at the south end of campus (and a major bus stop at the railroad station three blocks away) makes the answer to the question, ‘Where will I catch the bus?’ obvious.