Several mass transit routes serve the campus and surrounding area. UC San Diego offers different programs that provide discounted transit access for faculty, staff and students.
- Welcome To The Black Mesa Transit System Website
- Welcome To The Black Mesa Transit System Meaning
- Welcome To The Black Mesa Transit System Definition
Transit Passes
Transit products for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) and North County Transit District (NCTD) are delivered through the PRONTO regional fare system.
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In addition to the daily, weekly and monthly products available directly through PRONTO, these products are available exclusively to certain segments of the UC San Diego community.
- U-Pass – included with student fees for matriculated students during the fall, winter and spring academic quarters
- Summer Pass – $67.52 for eligible students
- FaSt Pass – reduced-cost monthly product for payroll deduction eligible faculty and staff available through Transportation Services only
All other members of the university community should purchase transit products directly through PRONTO.
- If you are a student, learn How to Use PRONTO.
- If you are an employee, learn How to Use PRONTO.
- Where to buy/reload your PRONTO
Link Your PRONTO Account
All members of the UC San Diego community should associate their @ucsd.edu email addresses to their PRONTO accounts AND associate their account with a UC San Diego program so thatTransportation Services can assist with purchases or account issues.
Download the PRONTO app and create your PRONTO account.
- Search ‘PRONTO San Diego' in the Apple or Google Play stores to download the PRONTO mobile app.
- All UC San Diego transit riders must create a PRONTO account using their @ucsd.edu email address.
- Look under the 'Use' tab and select the option to 'Create Virtual Card.'
- Your mobile app will hold your transit pass.
- If you have a PRONTO card and wish to use it instead of the app, do not create a virtual card; instead, use the 'Link Existing Card' tab to add the card to your PRONTO account.
- Open your PRONTO mobile app and link the virtual card through the 'Student and Employee Program' button.
- Select the UCSD program you belong to:
- Faculty/Staff/Qualified Affiliate choose UCSD Employer
- Undergrad/Graduate choose UCSD U-Pass
For assistance with PRONTO app errors, use this form to submit a case directly with the PRONTO team.
Bus Routes
- Serving La Jolla campus:
- 30: UTC, La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Old Town, downtown San Diego
- 41: VA Hospital, UTC, Clairemont, Fashion Valley
- 101: UTC, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Carlsbad, Oceanside NCTD
- 150: UTC, VA Hospital, Old Town, downtown San Diego
- 201/202 SuperLoop: UTC area
- 204 SuperLoop: UTC area, Executive Drive, Judicial Drive, Nobel Drive
- 237: UCSD - Rancho Bernardo Transit Station
- 921: UTC, Mira Mesa
- 978: Torrey Pines, Sorrento Valley Station
- 979: North University City, Sorrento Valley Station
- Serving Hillcrest Medical Center
- 3: Hillcrest, downtown San Diego, Euclid Avenue Trolley Station
- 10: Old Town, Mission Hills, Hillcrest, North Park, City Heights, College Avenue
Coaster Train
Incentives
- Emergency rides home: Register in advance for Guaranteed Ride Home, a SANDAG program that provides rides in case of illness, unscheduled overtime, or family emergencies. Registered users, dial 511 when you need a ride.
- Drive shared vehicles with Zipcar (when you meet eligibility requirements).
Rates
Coaster Club registration is free. Eligible members are responsible for paying monthly 30-Day Coaster pass fees, which are subject to change:
- 2 zones: $161
- 3 zones: $182
- Senior/Disabled: $58*
*Senior citizens (age 65+ or born on or before 9/1/1959) must provide a state-issued driver's license, government-issued photo identification card, or an Senior/Disabled/Medicare Compass Card with integral photo identification when purchasing a Senior Pass, or boarding a transit vehicle with a Senior Pass.
Transportation Services:
- Does not qualify or issue Compass Cards for Persons with Disabilities or Medicare (see MTSSenior/Disabled/Medicare Discounted Fares)
- Is authorized to sell and add Senior/Disabled/Medicare fares to Compass Cards of eligible persons qualified as UCSD eligible affiliates.
How to Purchase
Welcome To The Black Mesa Transit System Website
- Bring:
- Valid UC San Diego ID
- Payment method
- Faculty and staff can sign up for pretax payroll deduction. Submit a Transit Pass Payroll Authorization/Cancellation Form (PDF). Two monthly pass payments are required in advance before payroll deductions begin.
- If you are unable to use payroll deduction, bring cash, credit card or check every 30 days to renew your pass.
- At signup, you'll receive your Compass Card.
Using Compass Card
- Learn how Compass Card works.
- Your Compass Card renews automatically and confirms your fare when you tap it on the fare validator.
- Tap at least once by the 14th of the usage month.
- Cash transactions must be completed by the 15th of the preceding month. (Appointments are available.)
- All Compass Cards have a physical expiration date. You are responsible for ensuring that your Compass Card is active. Most cards are valid for 5–10 years. If your Compass Card expires, it cannot access the electronically updated monthly fare. You can find your Compass Card expiration date by:
- Checking the 'REPLACE CARD BY' date that appears on the back of your card in the upper right corner
- Visiting the Compass Card website and entering your card's 16-digit serial number that appears above the black bar in the lower right corner
- Calling the Compass Service Center, (619) 595-5636
- Note: If your Compass Card expires within the next 6 months and you want to avoid potential service disruption, you can visit Commute Solutions in the Gilman Parking Structure Office to get a free replacement card.
- Report any problems immediately to Commute Solutions, (858) 534-7433.
- Report changes, cancellations and lost or stolen Compass Cards immediately (see below).
- Refunds are not available for Compass Cards. Lost or damaged cards incur a $15 replacement fee.
- Automatic payroll deduction continue unless you submit a new Authorization/Cancellation Form by the 15th of the month before the change becomes effective to ensure adequate cancellation processing.
Welcome To The Black Mesa Transit System Meaning
Rider Information
- San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS), including all city bus routes and trolley
- OneBusAway – MTS mobile app for real-time bus information
- Tap & Ride (PDF)
- North County Transit District, including Breeze bus and Coaster train
Welcome To The Black Mesa Transit System Definition
Compass Cards
Compass Cards sometimes expire on a different date than appears on the card. Check the expiration date of your physical Compass Card.
Beyond San Diego County
- Amtrak: Pacific Surfliner Student Discount
- San Diego International Airport (Lindbergh Field):
- Connect via bus route 992 (service between downtown and the airport)
- Route 30 and 150 to downtown
- Sycuan Green Line Trolley to Santa Fe Depot, the COASTER and Amtrak
- Connect via bus route 992 (service between downtown and the airport)
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2006[edit]
This is a basic article I put together based on what information is published by DiStream, in anticipation that the service(and by extension the article) will become more important as the service's first high-profile game, Prey, launches in a few weeks.
It still needs a lot of work, including better Wikification, a product list, more information on how the service works and its technological underpinnings, and possibly user experience. Please add to it as you can.
ViRGE 00:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Someone needs to put in a refutation that Triton is the only service that can stream games, because it's just not true. I've got a screenshot showing HL2 open in a Window while it's only 59% downloaded on Steam, but I'm not sure how to put images in properly... --AiusEpsi 03:40, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Just did a test. From running the Steam installer to the G-Man saying 'Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman' took just under 21 minutes, downloading 219.8 MB which is 27% of the full game. HL1 took 1.5 minutes to go from installing it in the Steam menu to hearing 'Welcome to the Black Mesa transit system', downloading 15.9 MB or 14% of the full game. I guess this may count as original research, but I'd imagine the result that you need a lot less than 100% to start either game would be repeatable. --AiusEpsi 04:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
'As a result the system has had no real-world testing for high-load situations, and may be a problem with the forthcoming release of Prey.'
Prey is out - does anyone know how Triton fared under the load? LukeyBoy 14:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Shutting Down[edit]
3dRealms has found out that Triton is being shut down without Digital Streams bothering to tell them. Isn't that nice? --ViRGE 19:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sources! Forum posts are a-ok if they are by an admin or otherwise official. --Tom Edwards 19:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/737/737827p1.html - It looks like it's gone under. Triton was pretty much a joke, they never had anything like a Half-Life 2 to ram digital distribution down people's throats. Instead of trying to launch their own service, they should have tried to farm out their streaming tech to other digital distribution companies. I don't know whether it's just the Triton service that's died, or the entire DiStream company behind it, it looks like the latter. - Hahnchen 01:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
