“It’s much safer. It gets students closer to [their] destination. It’s better for traffic,” Harris said.

Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, the chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee, said that bus shelters might be added at both stops.

“I would hope that in these negotiations, some sort of shelter like the one by Memorial Hall could be considered or proposed,” he said. But Chadbourne added that any construction near the Yard would have to be approved by the Cambridge Historical Commission.

Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II said that the changes would increase student safety.

“The advantage of this is safety,” he said. “[The city] is trying to make this a much more pedestrian [friendly] area.”

Chadbourne said it will take time for students to get used to the changes.

“They’ll have to walk across a different part of the Yard,” he said.

But Chadbourne added that the new stops had been positively received by the students who attended the shuttle forum last week.

Separately, Harris said that the shuttle service would spend almost $1 million to replace five of the seven buses in its fleet by next Christmas.

The new buses—which will all have low floors and digital destination signs—will be more fuel efficient, Harris said.

­—Staff writer Joseph M. Tartakoff can be reached at tartakof@fas.harvard.edu.