Due to increased ticket sales, the Student Association is adding another bus for Friday’s Elburn shuttle.

Mass transit director Rob Sorsby said the addition is a part of a pilot program to see if students respond favorably to it.

“We’re starting a trial program to see if a large student population would use the shuttle,” Sorsby said.

The program was started because tickets for the shuttle sold out early in the week. Sorsby said tickets for the Route A shuttle, which leaves at 3:15 p.m. every Friday, would sell out by Monday. Tickets for the Route B shuttle, which also leaves at 5:20 p.m. every Friday, are gone the next day.

Sorsby said the SA will watch ticket sales this week and next week to measure the success of the program.

“Depending on this week and the following week, if ticket sales cover the cost of the shuttle, we’ll continue to run it,” Sorsby said.

Although he did not have the figures, Sorsby estimated at least half of the tickets available for each shuttle for both times would have to be sold in order for the pilot program to become permanent. The shuttle, which is a bus from Huskie Bus Line, holds about 100 people, including standees.

Sorsby also mentioned the possibility of pushing the shuttle back to 5:20 or 7:15 p.m. if there was enough student demand to do so.

“That’s a great idea because it was hard to get a shuttle ticket last minute so you’d have to find some other way to get home,” said Joe Tedeschi, sophomore Spanish language and literature major, who takes the shuttle two or three times a semester.

Some students do not feel the need to change their transportation habits. Alexa Powell, senior nutritional and dietetics major, said her main transportation is her car, and she has no plans to use the shuttle with the possible exception being road conditions and bad weather.

“If I didn’t have a car, I’d use it,” Powell said. “I took the Greyhound to get home freshman year, and that was horrible.”