COACT MeetingCET Service Overview

Redmond, ORJuly 12, 2012

REGIONAL TRANSIT SERVICEOVERVIEW

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– 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

FY04/05 FY05/06 FY06/07 FY07/08 FY08/09 FY09/10 FY10/11 FY11/120

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100,000

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200,000

250,000

300,000

350,000

400,000

450,000

500,000

Bend Ridership, FY 04/05 to FY 11/12

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Ridership Trends

Jan, '0

8

Mar, '0

8

May, '0

8

Jul, '08

Sep, '0

8

Nov,'08

Jan, '0

9

Mar, '0

9

May, '0

9

July, '0

9

Sep, '0

9

Nov, '09

Jan, '1

0

Mar, '1

0

May, '1

0

July, '1

0

Sep, '1

0

Nov, '10

Jan, '1

1

Mar, '1

1

May, '1

1

July, '1

1

Sept, '

11

Nov, '11

Jan, '1

2

Mar, 2012

May, 2

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Cascades East Transit Trips; Non-Bend Rides – January 2008 Open-ing to May 2012

Current Ridership

School26%

Work24%Shopping

14%

Personal Business/Errands

10%

Medical/Dental6%

Recreation/Social5%

Other15%

n=292

Trip Purpose: Bend Fixed Route On-board Survey March ‘12

COCC/OSU, HS

34,020 rides on fixed route in March 2012

Non-Bend Trip Purpose

Work & Training/School;

54.0%

Other; 20.6%

Medical; 8.9%

Shopping; 6.3%

Recreation/Social; 5.9%

Recreation/Social; 5.0%

Senior/Meal Center; 4.4%

Regional Trip Purpose (non-Bend), average over 2 years

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 LINK