SafeRide Services

The SafeRide program utilizes Lyft to facilitate transportation for the Tufts community. Riders using the SafeRide program will need to have a cell phone but do not need a Lyft account.

TUPD will facilitate the SafeRide process for the Medford/Somerville Campus.

• Call the Non-Emergency number for TUPD (617) 627-3030.
• Have a pick-up address and drop-off address ready. * Must be within 1.25miles radius of Campus center.
• Provide a phone number to receive details of your scheduled ride.
• When you are matched with a driver, riders will receive additional SMS messages with details about their pickup, including the driver's name, vehicle make and model, and license plate number.
• Riders with mobile internet access can access a “live ride map” for tracking their ride by clicking a link sent via SMS with the message, "See where your Lyft ride is at."

Policies for SafeRide program

• Must be a student, staff, faculty, or affiliate of Tufts University
• Requests must be made between the hours of 11pm – 7am (Campus shuttle is available prior to 11pm or after 7am)
• Rides must be within a service boundary area 1.25 Miles radius from the Medford/ Somerville Campus center.
• No more than 3 riders

Awaiting Pickup

After receiving the SafeRide service details please wait inside the lobby of the pickup location.  It is the caller’s responsibility to meet the driver once they arrive. Please be sure to confirm vehicle and driver information prior to entering the vehicle.

Lyft Customer Support:

Report an incident with Lyft (24/7 critical response)

Lyft General inquires

SMFA students traveling between 230 Fenway Building, NEC, Emmanuel College, 160 St. Alphonsus St., or 1025 Beacon St. residences, when the Tufts Shuttle is not in service, should use the SMFA Lyft Program or the Beacon St. Lyft Program.

Additional information about traveling to and from the SMFA campus can be found on the SMFA transportation page.

SMFA Students living on the Medford Campus who are unexpectedly needing transportation back to their residence hall from the 230 Fenway Building, 160 St. Alphonsus St., or 1025 Beacon St. residences after 11PM may call public safety for a one-time Lyft code to facilitate their SafeRide.

SMFA Students living at the 1025 Beacon residence halls who are unexpectedly needing transportation back to Beacon Street from the Medford campus after 11PM may call public safety for a one-time Lyft code to facilitate their SafeRide.

TUPD will facilitate the SafeRide process from the SMFA Campus.

• Call the Non-Emergency number for TUPD (617) 627-3030.
• Have a pick-up address and drop-off address ready. *Must be within 1.25miles of 230 Fenway Building, 160 St. Alphonsus St., or 1025 Beacon St. residences
• Provide a phone number to receive details of your scheduled ride.
• When you are matched with a driver, riders will receive additional SMS messages with details about their pickup, including the driver's name, vehicle make and model, and license plate number.
• Riders with mobile internet access can access a “live ride map” for tracking their ride by clicking a link sent via SMS with the message, "See where your Lyft ride is at."

Policies for SafeRide program

• Must be a student, staff, faculty, or affiliate of Tufts University
• Requests must be made between the hours of 11pm – 7am (Campus shuttle is available prior to 11pm or after 7am)

• Rides must be within a service boundary area 1.25 Miles radius from the 230 Fenway Building, 160 St. Alphonsus St., or 1025 Beacon St. residences.

• No more than 3 riders

Awaiting Pickup

After receiving the SafeRide service details please wait inside the lobby of the pickup location.  It is the caller’s responsibility to meet the driver once they arrive. Please be sure to confirm vehicle and driver information prior to entering the vehicle.

Lyft Customer Support:

Report an incident with Lyft (24/7 critical response)

Lyft General inquires

For your personal safety, the Tufts University Police Department provides vehicle and walking escorts twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, between campus locations, to the nearby Washington Street Medical Center T Stop, the parking garage shuttle that leaves from the corner of Nassau Street and Washington Street, the Travelers Lot, Herald Street Parking Garage, neighborhoods within these locales, and as well as South Station and Boylston Street T stops, when traffic allows. Please contact the Tufts University Police Department at 617-636-6610, or from a campus phone at x66610.

For your personal safety, all Cummings School students, faculty, and staff may utilize the SafeRide service. The service is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. In addition to campus-wide escorts, campus police will also extend these services to and from the Grafton T station. For service, please contact the Grafton campus police at 508-887-4900 or from a campus phone at x84900.