COACT Meeting
CET Service Overview
Redmond, OR
July 12, 2012
REGIONAL TRANSIT SERVICE
OVERVIEW
Current Transit Service
CET Provides 4 Types of Service:
1. Fixed Route System in Bend
– 7 Routes
– 40-minute “headways”
– Spoke and hub: all routes converge at Hawthorne
• Provides maximum coverage with limited funding
• Means lots of transfers
Current Transit Service, cont.
2. Local Public Bus Service
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Varying service areas – most extend well past cities’ limits
Curb-to-curb service
Rides require reservation at least 24 hours/advance
Culver La Pine, Madras, Metolius, Prineville = 7am to
5:30pm, M-F
– Redmond = 6:30am to 6:00 pm, M-F
– Sisters = 9am to 3:30 pm, Tuesdays only
Current Transit Service, cont.
3. Community Connector Shuttles
– (20) Warm Springs-Madras: Up to 6 round-trips/day; fixed sched.
– (21) Culver-Metolius-Madras: Up to 6 trips/day; require
reservation
– (22) Madras-Redmond: Up to 7 round-trips/day; some fixed
– (23) Airporter (NEW): Connects Redmond hub to Airport; requires
reservation
– (26) Redmond-Prineville: Up to 7 round-trips/day; some fixed
– (28) Sisters-Redmond: Up to 6 round-trips/day; req. reservation
– (24) Redmond-Bend: 8 round-trips/day; fixed schedule
– (30) La Pine – Bend: Up to 6 round-trips/day; req. reservation.
Current Transit Service, cont.
4. Special Seasonal Services
• “Mountain Service” to Mount Bachelor
– Coming this season; transit stop at Meissner Sno-Park
• “Ride the River” Service for Deschutes River floaters in Bend
MORE INFORMATION? CET WEBSITE or the RIDER GUIDE
www.cascadeseasttransit.com
RIDERSHIP AND TRIP PURPOSE
OVERVIEW/TRENDS
Bend Ridership Trends
Fixed route
Bend Ridership, FY 04/05 to FY 11/12
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Ridership Trends
Cascades East Transit Trips; Non-Bend Rides – January 2008 Opening
to May 2012
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Current Ridership
Trip Purpose: Bend Fixed Route On-board Survey March ‘12
Other
15%
COCC/OSU, HS
Recreation/Social
5%
School
26%
Medical/Dental
6%
34,020 rides on fixed
route in March 2012
Personal
Business/Errands
10%
n=292
Shopping
14%
Work
24%
Non-Bend Trip Purpose
Regional Trip Purpose (non-Bend), average over 2 years
Recreation/Social Senior/Meal
Center, 4.4%
, 5.0%
Recreation/Social
, 5.9%
Shopping, 6.3%
Medical, 8.9%
Other, 20.6%
Work &
Training/School,
54.0%
INSET: Community Connector
Trips Only
Funding Challenges
• Need to develop 50% local match for federal
grants, but local sources are diminishing
– BETC phasing out
– PEP gone, DHS gone, COCOA ½ former level
– City of Bend commitment to $1 million in local
match/year expires in 2015
• Makes it very difficult to spend time improving the
system (chasing $)
• Difficult to plan for future service.
• Driving potential service cutbacks to regional
system over next two years
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