Bus Information and Updates

If you received an e-mail from the Bursar's Office stating that your Bus and Bike Program Fees have been refunded due to taking all your classes remotely you are still able to keep your Transit Pass Active and retain access to the Bike Program services. You have two options to retain campus offered services:

1. Email buspass@colorado.edu from your @colorado.edu e-mail account with the following language: “In order to keep my CollegePass active for the Fall 20 Semester and give me access to the bike program services, I give the CU Sustainable Transportation Program approval to charge my student account $95 to purchase an "optional bus pass".”
2. Opt in for Full Fees through the Bursar's office website. This will reinstate your fees for the Athletic Fee (undergraduates only), Bike Program Fee, Rec Center Expansion Fee, and Transit Pass Fee. These fees are up to $143.61 for undergraduate students and $115.11 for graduate students. 

The Bus Pass program does not determine eligibility for refunding fees due to taking classes remotely. Students should work directly with the Bursar’s office with questions on elegibility. If you aren't a fully remote learner, please see this website for eligibility requirements on refunding your Bus Pass Fee through the Environmental Center's Bus and Bike Program.

Similar to the last few summers, Graduate student employees who are employed at least 15% of time during the summer and have job codes of 1502, 1503, 1505, and 1506 will have their summer passes activated and paid for as part of their benefits package. All eligible passes have successfully had their suspensions removed for the summer.

Let us help you out. Just email buspass@colorado.edu with your name and Bus Pass # (starts with 00xxxxxx). We will take it from there and let you know once we get it repaired. We want to make sure you can ride hassle free and as often as you want!

To reduce the stress and expense of traveling remember that your bus pass will get you to DIA. RTD ramps up their service during the peak student travel days, to help make sure that you catch your ride to the airport and don't miss your flight. To keep your stress level low the bus even drops you off at the front doors of the airport.  Save your time and money and let RTD Sky Ride drive you to the airport!

CU Boulder is partnering with Transit for real-time tracking of Buff Buses including the late-night routes. Riders can receive alerts for Buff Bus route changes/detours in real time. This will help riders consolidate their transportation needs, making Buff Bus tracking available on an app riders already use to track other services like RTD, the Hop and B-Cycle.

Download the Transit app (and select Buff Bus in your settings) for real time Buff Bus information including real-time arrival predictions, simple trip planning, service alerts and more.

Get Transit on Google Play or in the Apple Store. 

We strive to give our customers; the Students, Faculty, and Staff of CU, the option to easily be part of the solution instead of part of the problem. Active tranport (walking, biking, skating, skiing, etc..) and other sustainable modes of transportation (public transit and carpooling) are promoted because of their significant positive impacts on the environment, mental and physical health, economy, social equity, and heck it's way more fun. By use of these modes of transportation we can become a more sustainable campus without making major sacrifices. To the right are various modes of transportation that we support; try to find out which mode is best suitable for your lifestyle and needs. Your student bus pass also gets you discounts around town. Check out the Ecopass website for a list of shops and restarants around town that give discounts when you show your bus pass.

RTD has informed us that all College Passes that are in the range of 00707001 - 0071000 are non-rechargeable. This means that the card is defective and will never properly work. If you have a card in that range, please visit the Buff OneCard office in the C4C for a free replacement card.