This past January we made a mid-year adjustment on the Inbound W Route and Outbound K Route weekday schedule. We moved the timetable on both routes up three minutes to help riders who needed to be out at Cato Park on the hour. The H, W and K Route service is interlined like the N, V and R service. This fall we moved up by three minutes the other four “legs” of the interlined service:

A couple of bus stop changes have also been made on the H and K Routes. The two bus stops at the Fox Hollow Road entrance to the Village at Penn State (H Route) have been removed along with the stop on campus on Curtin Road at Rec Hall. A new stop has been added on Park Center Blvd. (K Route) immediately prior to the second entrance to Bank of America (to serve The Landings neighborhood.)

Increased ridership and traffic in the corridors served by each of these routes has really hampered the ability to maintain the advertised schedule over the last few years, particularly during the peak traffic periods. As a result, the timetables on all three routes have been restructured and the N/V and R Express service has been changed to better coordinate and integrate those routes with their corresponding underlying routes. More time has been added into the schedule for each route so that the busses can remain on schedule more consistently and to allow the V Route to be extended to serve the "northern" end of Oakwood Avenue. While the new daytime frequencies on these routes will now range between every 32 and every 40 minutes.

The P Route has been extended out to University Park Airport this Fall. While the preference is to operate that extension all day long, an incremental step in that direction will happen starting august 27. Therefore the P Route will start out by operating six trips to the Airport, and six more from the Airport, every weekday during the time periods that best match up with the "clusters" of arrivals at departures from the Airport. This is a couple trips very early in the morning, a couple more during the late afternoon, and then a late night trip. Extending the P Route provides a direct connection between the Airport, campus, downtown State College and the many hotels along South Atherton Street. The extension adds a second bus on the route which improves the service on the existing portion of the P Route by offering earlier and later P Route service to existing riders while slightly improving the 70 minute afternoon frequency during the time that the new afternoon Airport trips operate.

Last fall about ten minutes was added into the timetable to accommodate for the anticipated delay during the year-long reconstruction of Science Park Road. With construction completed, this fall the timetable has been changed back to close to what it was prior to the road project. The construction resulted in some bus stops being moved around in the area as new concrete pads at each stop location were built as part of the road project.

The routing through Bellefonte Borough has been further streamlined so that the number of service miles traveled within the Borough coincide the amount of local share contribution that Bellefonte Borough is willing to commit to the service for this upcoming year. All the trips that currently bypass Governor's Gate (mid-day weekday trips and all Saturday trips) will now also bypass Parkview Heights by using Wilson Street between Blanchard and Lynn Streets. The change will result in a core route through Bellefonte that expands during the traditional commute trips to serve Governor's Gate apartments and Parkview Heights. All of these “shorter trips” will now also leave the Mall five minutes later which will allow for better transfer connections with the M Route.. Note that the Rush Hour or traditional commuter trips are not affected by this change.

A couple of bus stop changes have also been made on the X Route. A pair of stops in each direction have been added along the Benner Pike near Confer Ford. A new stop has been added on Steeplechase Drive between Tealbriar Dr. and N. Main Street. The pair of stops on Harrison Rd. near Sunset Ave. have been eliminated and the pair around the corner on S. Main have been moved closer to Sunset.