If approved, the bill would allocate funds for a feasibility study on expanding commuter rail service from Wilsonville to Salem. Without a clear intent for project governance, though, the Salem Area Mass Transit District warns that the study could collect dust.
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YOUR GOVERNMENT: Cherriots rates high in satisfaction survey shows
Thursday’s meeting will include presentations on recent customer and community satisfaction surveys, and a vote on spending for four buses.
Cherriots free youth ticket program leads to increase in ridership
Data shows that in the months after Cherriots launched its Youth Zero Pass program, young people took thousands more trips than in the months prior.
State fines top Cherriots official $100 after ethics investigation
General manager Allan Pollock will also donate his accumulated rewards as a penalty for applying his personal airline and hotel membership rewards accounts to Cherriots-funded business trips.
Cherriots hopes to add Albany express service, increase frequency in coming years
Agency leaders said a long-range plan the board will consider Thursday is a first step toward building more robust public transit serving Oregon’s capital. Whether the agency’s plans will happen as outlined depends on securing grants.
Thefts, vandalism spell an end for Ride Salem bike share
Three years after it launched, Salem’s downtown bike rental program is no more.
City lands $13.2 million from feds for McGilchrist improvements
Salem is getting millions from the federal Department of Transportation to add sidewalks, turn lanes and stormwater drainage to Southeast McGilchrist Street. The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday announced a $13.2 million grant for the project. It’s one of three road projects funded in Oregon this year under the[Read More…]
Uncategorized Cherriots adds Sunday bus service starting in September
David Nichols-Alarcon, a driver with Cherriots, steps off the bus to pull his mask down and take a drink while holding at a stop to keep on schedule. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) For the first time in its more than 40-year history, Cherriots is offering bus service on Sundays. Starting on[Read More…]
Uncategorized Cherriots running nearly all routes following months of reduced service, but fewer than half of riders have returned
Caution tape closes off seats on a Cherriots bus to guide social distancing. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) More than six months after Salem’s transit service started implementing safety precautions because of Covid and several bus drivers tested positive, Cherriots has re-opened nearly all its routes. Service is back to 95% of[Read More…]
As the economy reopens, more people are riding the bus
William Shephard rides a Cherriots bus to work on Friday, May 22. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) After ridership plummeted at the start of the pandemic, more people are venturing back on to Salem’s bus service. In June, 87,000 people boarded a Cherriots bus for its local ridership service, a rebound from[Read More…]
