Service Learning Transportation
Visit our Service Learning Map to see where service learning takes place.
All students doing off-campus service learning activities are entitled to a 10% transportation credit toward service learning hours. This means that 10% of a student's total required hours can be counted toward transportation. For example, if a student must do 20 hours of service learning, 2 hours can be counted toward transportation. If a student documents 18 hours of on-site service time, requirements have been met.
Students have the following transportation options:
- Walk
- Bike or Cycloserve
- Free university shuttle
- Public Transit
- Drive
- Share a cab (pilot program)
Many of Loyola's service learning agencies are within easy walking distance of Loyola University. Check the Service Learning Map or agency descriptions.
Many agencies are within easy biking distance of Loyola. Check agency descriptions for approximate biking time. If you do not have your own bike, the Office of Service Learning offers free daily bike use through Cycloserve. Want to use Cycloserve to get to your service learning site? Click here.
Tulane and Loyola students can ride university shuttles for free! The Green Line is particularly useful for service learning students. Not sure when to pick up the Green Line? Check the spring 2012 schedule. Not sure where pickup and dropoff points are? All Green Line stops are marked on our Service Learning Map. Also, all shuttles are now trackable and mappable online and on mobile devices! Check agency descriptions for routes and approximate times.
New Orleans' public transportation system is a great way to reach many service learning destinations. Check agency descriptions for approximate transit time and route suggestions. Route maps, schedules, and other detailed information are available at www.norta.com. Maps and schedules can also be found outside Bobet 113.
Students who use RTA streetcars or buses to reach a service learning destination can get free tokens from the Office of Service Learning! Learn more here.
Drive
Some agencies are easiest to reach by car. If you have access to a car and want to use it to get to your service learning agency, the Office of Service Learning can offer you a prepaid gas card to offset your fuel costs. Students are encouraged to carpool with other service learners. Learn more here.
Through a generous grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Louisiana, the Office of Service Learning is piloting a ride-sharing program which will provide prepaid cab rides to certain preapproved destinations to groups of service learning students traveling together. Learn more here.
All times are approximations based on estimates provided by Google, NORTA, and the NolaCycle Bike Map Project.