The Capital Transportation Corporation who suppliesthe Jag Train, has been servicing Southern University since the year 2000, tosupply transportation for students around campus and in the Baton Rouge area.
According to Dwight Brashear, Chief ExecutiveOfficer of CTC, the bus services students throughout the city of Baton Rouge asoften as needed.
The Jag Train makes a circuit of SouthernUniversity’s campus, starting from the F.G. Clark Activity Center.
It runs only on Southern’s class days, from 7 a.m.to 5 p.m. during the fall and spring semesters and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. in thesummer. Service is as frequent as every five minutes in the morning and as farapart as every 20 minutes in the afternoon.
Louisiana State University and Southern Universitycampus routes, including the Capitol Park Trolley and all other routes of CTC,are free for students with a valid LSU or SU ID.
“I think it’s a great idea to have bus services oncampus, but because the fare is free for students, everybody tries to get on atthe same time just to ride around campus. I think that they should make thebuses bigger,” said Justin Patterson a senior mass communication major fromGray.
CTC is considering changing the company’s name tothe Capital Area Transit system (CAT), in favor of both the Tiger’s and theJaguars.
“We’re changing our name to support both schools,because we take pride in SU and LSU. The reason we would like to use theacronym CAT is because both mascots are apart of the cat family, and we wouldlike to stress embracing both universities and CTC all as one big family,”Brashear said.
There will be a board meeting on October 19 to voteon the changes.
According to Brashear, CTC has already purchasedfifty new vehicles with school colors from both universities but on separatebuses, with paw prints on each.
“Southern should begin to see the new vehicles inthe late part of October, but all fifty will be in by January 2005,” Brashearsaid.
