OCC Transport
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| Parent | Student Association at Binghamton University |
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| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | Binghamton, New York |
| Service area | Broome County |
| Service type | Bus Transit |
| Routes | 13 regular routes 3 Late Night routes |
| Fleet | Champion Bus Defender Thomas Saf-T-Liner HDX Thomas TL960 ("Short Bus") Chevrolet Express (Main Campus Shuttle) ElDorado Aerotech (Lift) |
| Fuel type | Diesel |
| Website | OCC Transport |
OCC Transport, Inc. , or OCCT, is Binghamton University's student driven, managed, and operated bus service. [1] The mission of OCCT today is "to provide safe, reliable, convenient, consistent, and courteous transportation to the Binghamton University community."
Routes
- Binghamton (BING)
- Campus Shuttle (CS)
- Downtown Express (DE)
- Inter-Campus Shuttle (ICS)
- Johnson City Westside (JC)
- Leroy Southside (LRSS)
- Oakdale Mall (OAK)
- Oakdale, Wegmanns, Walmart(OWW)
- Residential Shuttle (RES)
- Riviera Ridge (RR)
- Riviera Ridge Town Square Mall (RR-TSM)
- Triple Cities (TC)
- University Downtown Center Shuttle (UDC)
- University Plaza Shuttle (UPS)
- Westside Main (WM)
- Westside Special (WSS)
History
OCCT from its founding was run as a fully democratic, student-owned and operated cooperative until 1995, a year of great controversy for the storied "blue buses", as they became known over the years. That summer, as chronicled in the student newspaper "Pipe Dream," a lock-out followed when the student cooperative voted to shut-down during the summer until the university administration back off on its attempts to re-form its governance and impose a non-elected, administration-appointed coordinator. A former student- driver and one-time coordinator was hired to lead the "new" OCCT, and a trickle of co-op drivers soon flocked to the altered and newly-hiring OCCT, which exists to this day without its original structure.[2]
Fleet
- Champion Bus Incorporated Freightliner M2 Defender
- Thomas Saf-T-Liner HDX
- Thomas Built Buses TL960 ("Short Bus")
- Chevrolet Express (Main Campus Shuttle)
- ElDorado Aerotech (Lift)
References
- ^ OCC Transport
- ^ Benardello, Anthony J. "Administration, SA, & OCCT Battle." Binghamton Review 9.2 (Oct. 1995): 5-7. Print, Digital Archive.