ASPC is providing free rides to the airport earlier than winter break, Ariana Makar PO ’24, the scholar authorities’s director of operations, introduced in an electronic mail to Pomona College college students Monday.
The rideshare program will service rides to each Ontario International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) through van and bus.
To gauge scholar curiosity within the program and plan out dates and occasions, Makar’s electronic mail included a hyperlink to a Google kind the place college students may state what time they want a experience to the airport.
ASPC is recruiting scholar drivers to drive different college students to and from Ontario and LAX. Drivers can be paid $20 an hour to drive autos supplied by the varsity and can have versatile schedules, Makar mentioned.
Students should signal as much as drive by Dec. 9 by 11:59 p.m., and, upon doing so, can be notified of experience confirmations on a rolling foundation. Students should register as college-approved drivers, Vice President of Finance Adeena Liang PO ’23 added in a Thursday follow-up, which can cowl incidents below the faculty’s insurance coverage coverage.
ASPC has experimented with airport shuttle providers on and off since a minimum of 2017, when 15 college students took benefit of a pilot program for first-year and switch college students.
Sridha Chadalavada PO ’24 is “happy and relieved” that ASPC’s rideshare program will resume.
“I was originally going to have to take an Uber to the LAX airport, which would have cost me almost a hundred dollars. That’s practically the price of a plane ticket,” Chadalavada mentioned. “This rideshare program makes it super easy and convenient for me to travel.”
ASPC has additionally relaunched its 5C Rideshare web site, the place college students can join with one another and break up the price of a experience to the airport. The web page now contains the choice to seek out rides to or from Hollywood Burbank Airport, along with Ontario and LAX.