Undergraduate students at the University of Windsor have given a thumbs up to the transit U-Pass project, making it a permanent program.
Unofficial results from the referendum vote by undergraduate students on Wednesday and Thursday, show about 60-percent of students voted in favour of making the pilot projec permanent.
For the past three years, Transit Windsor and the university have partnered to offer students a universal bus pass with the cost included as part of tuition.
Moving forward, students will pay $66 per semester and can use transit as often as they like.
Transit Windsor Executive Director Pat Delmore says a quarter of students living in the county or using campus parking lots will be able to opt out.
He says with the downtown university campus, some students are choosing to park in one location and then bus it to the other campus.
Delmore says the pilot project in the past three years has helped to increase ridership at Transit Windsor.
"We have seen over the last three years that our ridership has gone up, it gives them so much more flexibility to be able to travel and to do the things that they want to and need to do during their school year."
He says the results will allow Transit Windsor to plan better and add additional service.
Graduate and part-time students vote on the U-pass next week, but regardless of their vote, the approval by the undergraduate students makes the U-pass program permanent.