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Transportation

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Best Ways to Get Around Town
  • Bum a ride from a friend
  • Drive your car
  • Take the SEPTA bus
Best Ways to Get to the Airport
  • A cab to the airport costs approximately $80.
  • Deluxe Transportation (215) 463-8787 Provides door-to-door service to the airport for $55 each way (not including tip) and requires 24 hours’ notice. Each additional person is $7.
  • King Limousine & Transportation (610) 265-3050 Private car and van transportation is available from campus and vice versa. You must give two days’ notice for cars ($94.50 for up to three people) and four days’ notice for vans ($107.10).
  • Philadelphia Airport Ground Transportation (215) 937-6958 Take the SEPTA 93 bus into Norristown, get on the R6 line to either 30th or Market Street station, and catch the R1 train. Cost is about $11.
  • Tropiano Transportation (215) 616-5370 Service runs from the Hampton Inn Hotel in Oaks and the Radisson Hotel in King of Prussia. One-way cost is $29 from Oaks and $23 from King of Prussia.

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

The good news is that the campus is tiny, so transportation is not required to get around. The farthest building here is Clamer, a 15-minute walk from the center of campus. Otherwise, the dorms are not even a minute from Olin Plaza, and most of the Main Street houses are a five-minute walk. In this sense, a student doesn’t need a car or any sort of public transportation at all. It is a fully residential campus, and everyone pretty much lives here.

The bad news is that if you want to get off campus, options are sorely limited. Public transportation here refers to the sole bus stop in front of campus, and hardly anyone takes the westbound bus. The eastbound bus takes students into the Norristown train station, and from there, it’s a short trip into Philly. Overall, it takes about an hour. From Philadelphia, students can go to New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, wherever. The school does have a few vans for students to use, but they are mostly for field trips. If a student really needs to get around easily, having a car is an absolute must. Without a car, a trip to Philadelphia is fairly easy with public transportation, but public transportation takes longer than driving and costs more.

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Transportation at Ursinus College

erfennelly

'12

Biology

2.3
C

Best to Have a Car

Collegeville is served by SEPTA (public transportation) but it is certainly not running as often as in the city. The best option is to have a car, which is not generally accepted for freshman. On campus, campus safety will pick you up in golf carts where ever, whenever. Off campus its pretty much up to you.

Aug 30, 2011

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Transportation at Ursinus College

lafogarty

'11

Social Sciences

2.3
C

Parking Is Hard.

The parking is limited and tickets are given out a lot (sometimes for no apparent reason). Also, the bus stop is right in front of the school, but I know people who have had horror stories because they got lost.

May 25, 2010

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Transportation at Ursinus College

Anonymous

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Public transportation is very...

Public transportation is very easy. There’s a bus that stops right in front of the school, and it’ll take you to the mall or to the train station to head to downtown Philadelphia. It is very convenient.

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Ursinus offers the use of vans to college groups so they can attend outings at festivals, concerts, museums, and other places.

Public TransitWhat's This?

Suburban-Link Shuttle Service

The shuttle runs Monday through Friday during peak travel hours with 10 stops at locations including Phoenixville Hospital, King of Prussia Mall, and the Gulph Mills Train Station. The cost is $1 a ride.

(610) 354-8899

www.gvftma.com

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)

The stop for the 93 bus is right in front of campus, across from the main gate.

(215) 580-7800

www.septa.org

Nearest AirportWhat's This?

Philadelphia International Airport

The Philadelphia International Airport is at the southeast corner of Philly, as far away from Collegeville as the city gets. It takes about 40 minutes to get there.

(215) 937-5458

www.phl.org

Nearest Passenger BusWhat's This?

The terminal is approximately 37 miles from campus.

1001 Filbert St., Philadelphia

(215) 931-4075

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Nearest Passenger TrainWhat's This?

30th Street Station

The station is approximately 35 miles from campus.

2955 Market St., Philadelphia

(800) 872-7245

www.amtrak.com

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