Welcome to the September 8th,
2026 C-TRAN Board of Directors
meeting. Please stand and join
me in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to.
>> The flag of the United
States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands
one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
>> Cyndie, would you please
call the roll?
>> Ryan Davis.
>> Present.
>> Wil Fuentes.
>> Here.
>> Bart Hanson. Present. Kim
Harless present. Tia Robertson
Sue Marshall here. Anne.
McEnerny. Ogle. Present. Ty
Stober here. Joshua waits here.
Glen Yung here.
>> All right. Now, moving along
to the approval of the agenda,
are there any additions or
changes to the agenda? Seeing
none, I would entertain a
motion to approve the agenda.
>> I move to approve Marchel.
>> Second Stober.
>> Got a motion and a second.
All in favor, say aye.
>> Aye.
>> Opposed? All right. Moving
along to public comment. Next
up is public testimony or
communication testimony.
>> Chair. Pardon me chair who
first the agenda. Acceptance,
please. I heard second on
Stober. I did not hear who?
>> Marshall.
>> Marshall. Thank you.
>> There we go.
>> Next up is public testimony
or communication. Testimony is
limited to three minutes. We
ask that comments shall be
respectful and courteous to all.
As a reminder, you can email
comments to the clerk of the
board and these will be
accepted as part of the public
record. I'll now open the
meeting for public testimony. I
will take the first person I
will take in person testimony
first. Carmen de Lehan.
>> Now it's red. Is that good?
Oh, yeah. Hey. Carmen de Lehan,
also known as mellow. So
anyways, today I. I guess I'm
talking about how the what is
it? Number five says that you
guys are putting like a bunch
of money into infrastructure
and I'm just looking at all the
stops being made and there's
nothing in there that solar
powered. And I'm talking about
the solar power would light it
up in the night time and save
money. So why not invest a
little bit extra money into
these, all these brand new vine
things that are supposedly for
the vine, but we know they're
they're actually light rail
stops, but we don't want to
tell the public that. We just
want to let them think they're
overpaying for these stops. But
I'm saying if you're going to
overpay so much, why not make
it solar powered? I'm not
telling jokes. Anyways, and I
know that everybody here does
not care about what the voters
say because the voters have
said no light rail since 1994.
But we know the vote was rigged
and so it was pushed through.
So now we're forced to deal
with this. But the Department
of Transportation, I believe,
said that the the bridge could
be built as long as light rail
wasn't in it. So whatever. I'm
confused. I hope you are too,
because I can see that when you
guys are putting billions of
dollars into a system that is
losing riders and ending
ridership and routes in
Portland because there's not
enough riders. And just by.
Hands up everybody who rode the
bus today. This week. Exactly.
So I have ride the bus. And
that's what I'm saying. When
you put money into something,
at least make it desirable for
people who want to come and
plug in something and actually
hang out at the bus stop. And
as you know. The bridge that
they want to make is an insult
to people who are disabled,
like myself, because it's, it's
really a struggle trying to get
up ten stories high. But I know
nobody cares about that because
the city of Vancouver has
illegal. Li dominated this vote
because the population of Clark
County is, I think, over
500,000. And if the population
of Vancouver is only 200,000,
then whatever happened to the
needs of the many outweigh the
needs of the few. I call that
rigging the vote, because you
don't go around asking
everybody what you're going to
vote. And they say, boom, we're
going to eliminate the person
who voted no and put somebody
in who will vote yes and donate
$1,000 to their campaign to
make sure they come in here and
vote yes for something that
Clark County voters do not want.
Since 1994. So how much time do
I have? So anyways, the Fremont
Bridge costs originally, what,
6650 million. Saint John's
Bridge was about 85 million in
today's money. So how come if
they've already secured
billions of dollars for that
bridge, they don't already
built it? Oh that's right,
light rail is screwing it all
up. Because according to my
figures, you could already make
two other bridges in Camas and
Saint Helens for less money
than this stupid bridge thing
that is historically registered.
For what? What is what good is
it to historically register the
bridge if you're just going to
demolish it? So what a waste.
>> Thank you. Next up we have
Margaret tweet.
>> Good evening. Today I'm
urging you once again, as I
have many times in the past,
when you share the ridership
information with the board and
the public, it should be by
route and it should be more
often, at least quarterly. We
have some very basic figures.
Nothing by route. There's about
28 routes, and C-TRAN already
tracks the ridership by route
for the National Transit
Database reports the monthly
reports that they're required
to submit to the federal
government. So explaining and
sharing that information even
every month is entirely
possible. And I'm mystified why,
after repeating this request
for years, we still have no bi
route information. Perhaps it's
because the route 60 is the one.
The single route 60 is the one
that they that you are all
proposing to replace with a
$3.5 billion light rail system,
instead of the affordable bus
system that we already have
today. This is a complete waste
of taxpayer funds and tolls.
And it's true that the voters
have rejected light rail across
I-5 bridge in 2012 and also in
2013 in a county wide vote.
They rejected it. And then the
Clark County resolution, which
is still on the county website,
states that there would be no
light rail project in Clark
County unless it is first
approved by the voters county
wide, and that resolution is
being completely ignored by you,
the board and the current
county commissioners that are
on the C-TRAN board. So I think
the information is inadequate.
Then we see here the the map of
the whole system. You know,
that includes both busses and
then the current. And of course,
we're seeing current ridership
going up and C-TRAN going down,
probably because it's hard to
register for the Kyann system,
and you even have to come in
and have a test of your
physical abilities in order to
qualify. So that is probably a
big explanation for why people
are why that ridership is down.
Now, I also want to say about
the ridership in Sound Transit
is just like the ridership here
from 2015 to 2025. It's a
reduction. It's going down.
They're spending billions for
nothing. Ridership is
decreasing. That's because you
all are ignoring the trends,
like working remotely, like
people being afraid to ride the
light rail because of the
incredible crime on there, the
murders, the stabbings and the
rapes. It's a disincentive for
every woman I know and children
to thank you.
>> And thank you. Next up we
have Michael Moore.
>> And the irony is I lost my
phone. To. I just made it here
at Tum and I had some stuff I,
I don't know. All right. Thank
you all. So as the irony of
Comedy of errors, of course, I
had a whole bunch of stuff that
I had 17MB of information that
I did a lot of calculus on. And
unfortunately, all I can do is
present some papers. But I know
there are people here who have
math degrees that are very good
at calculus. So that's why, if
someone may I present these in
paper form. I tried to do it. I
sent it last week to your admin.
It must have got scraped over
the weekend. That's all I can
figure out. There's a there's a
little glitch in all the system
that it's a number 729616
that's dealing with the kiosks
from flow Bird Park. Ian flow
bird. So they are from the EU.
I'm not. I haven't tracked down
if they have tech but it's not
C-TRAN fault because
Philadelphia Dallas 600 transit
authorities across the country
use this pre-vetted contractual
body. And that was all with
government money, which that's
a pass for everyone around here
because that goes right up to
the top. They miss that. So
that's our boom because as in
Katrina, all they ever do is
throw money at it. I sure hope
so because it's FEMA that's for
the county, that's for C-TRAN.
That's for everyone. And all it
takes is a little extra thought
if I might. Could I pass this
your way, sir? I'm sorry. So
the clock has started with that.
And it's not it is not
Armageddon at all. It's a it's
a equation. And I would like
those who are qualified to do
higher mathematics. Please look
at that cover sheet. There's
some. Does anybody have a
calculator? I don't have my
phone. And that they could look
at 5777 divided by 333 equals.
And you look what it produces.
And I unfortunately I had all
the equations on that. If
someone know really literally
right now and it creates 348 to
infinity. Like pie, I have five
of those in this analysis, five
new pies, Masonic social
engineering book learning from
a big dumb country boy from
Aberdeen. No, I mean, I'm from
Aberdeen. We had great
educators. They taught Latin in
school. This is an opportunity
for growth for all. And I'm 88
and you know, I used to, you
know, be involved. This person
right here was in my granting
an appointment to the City
Transportation Mobility
Commission. Thank you, sir, and
others short lived, but I've
done the work. Do the math.
Look at those numbers. I've got
that. All right. Here. Thank
you.
>> Thank you, ma'am.
>> All right. Next up, we have
the consent agenda. And do I
hear a recommendation to.
>> Can we pause, please, just
for a moment. We're checking
phones.
>> Okay.
>> For public comment.
>> Oh thank you. Oh thank you.
So now up to the consent agenda.
Would anybody like to pull
anything or would I like to
approve.
>> Motion to approve consent as
approved? Davis.
>> I'll second that. Marchel.
>> Thank you. We have a motion
and a second to approve. All
those in favor, say I.
>> I.
>> I opposed not hearing any
opposition. We will go ahead
and move on. To action item
number one contract award.
Fixed route bus replacement
purchase staff report 26-036.
>> Good evening, chairman and
Board of Directors. My name is
John Rosetti. I'm the Director
of Maintenance. What we have
currently is C-TRAN has 16 2008,
2009 and 2010. Gillig transit
busses that exceeded their
useful life are in need of
replacement due to age and
accumulated mileage in excess
of 600 000 miles. We were
looking to award a contract to
Gillig Corporation for the
purchase of 1640 foot diesel
powered, low floor transit
busses through the Washington
State contract and declare
aging vehicles surplus. The.
The procured diesel powered
busses will operate on clean,
renewable diesel fuel and meet
alternative fuel vehicle
requirements, as listed in the
Washington State Legislative
CW43 .99.648. The action that
we're looking for here this
evening is that C-TRAN Board of
Directors authorizes the Chief
Executive Officer to execute a
purchase order to Gillig
Corporation for the purchase of
1640 foot, diesel powered low
floor transit busses at a total
cost not exceeding $18,679,913,
and take the necessary actions
to dispose of 16 2008, 2009 and
2010 Gillig transit busses.
Thank you. I'd be happy to take
any questions.
>> Awesome directors. Any
questions? Council member
Stover.
>> Thank you chair. So what are
our lead times on these busses
right now?
>> There are about 26 months
out from the time we issue a Po.
Gillig is extremely backed up.
>> Thank you. Councilmember
Davis.
>> Yeah, thanks. I'm noticing
that a lot of the busses that
are being replaced are listed
as hybrids, but I didn't catch
that for the replacements. Is
that not a technology that we
are going towards?
>> That is correct. Yes. These
are diesel powered that are
going to operate on alternative
fuel vehicles. The reason we're
not going with hybrid vehicles,
they're extremely expensive to
purchase and maintain it. The
cost is astronomical.
>> Okay. All right. Thank you.
>> Just a quick question. Just
being fairly new on the board,
600 000 miles. That's is that a
policy that's been set? And I'm
curious how long it's been
since that's been reviewed,
because I know that. But I mean,
technology is changing and
expenses change. And so
somewhere you got to draw the
line. But just curious how
recent that number is from.
>> Right. We haven't looked.
It's that number is just an
average based on their useful
life benchmark of about 16
years. We run them anywhere
from 16 to 18 years. So that's
why we're trying to get in now
because the 26 month lead time,
the 600,000 miles is just an
average. I looked just today,
as a matter of fact, and we
have some that are about the
800 000 mile mark. By the time
that we order these busses,
we'll have some busses that
will be pushing a million miles.
>> Thank you. You're welcome.
>> Questions? Comments?
>> Chair.
>> I move approval of contract
26-036 staff report.
>> Second Quintus.
>> I have a motion and a second.
All those in favor say I. I
opposed. All right. Moving on
to presentations. C-TRAN
Community Advisory Committee
update staff report 26-037.
>> Good evening, chair and
members of the board. My name
is Mike McQueen. I am the chair
of the C-TRAN Community
Advisory Committee. I'm also
the bi state commuter
representative on the committee.
And this evening I'm here to
provide a report of board
activities. Since the last time
I was here back in May. So
since May, we've held an
applicant interview for our
Social services representative
position, and we nominated a
new representative, Katie
Cameron, who was approved by
the board. We reviewed and
provided input on the Regional
Transportation Council's Human
Services transportation plan
and then completed the
corresponding survey. And we
distributed the survey within
our networks. We discussed
C-TRAN fleet maintenance team,
its challenges and staffing. We
reviewed C-TRAN fall 2026
service change plans and
provided feedback. And along
with that, we reviewed and
discussed the regional and
express route service changes
for the upcoming I-5 Rose
quarter construction, and I was
paying very close attention to
that one. We met with the real
estate project manager with the
City of Vancouver, to
understand their new
comprehensive plan, zoning and
transit oriented development
plans, and we provided input.
We reviewed the Bus Stop
Prioritization Matrix project
with C-TRAN, Portland State
University student Consultants,
and provided feedback. We
reviewed C-TRAN transit
development plan and provided
feedback. Our newest committee
member, Katie Cameron, stood up
a new subcommittee and the
subcommittee held its first
meeting. And. The purpose of
the subcommittee is to identify
ways to improve the Kyvin
paratransit service, and we
should have the results of that
subcommittee research in
November, we provided regular
questions and feedback to
C-TRAN staff on a variety of
subjects, including training,
staffing, funding, feedback,
sharing, the current C van and
operations issues. Lastly, we
provided a forum for regular
questions, concerns and
comments from the community.
And that concludes my report.
>> Quick question overall
thoughts on transportation
oriented development. What was
your findings? What was your.
Just a quick.
>> There were some concerns
about parking minimums that
were discussed and the lack
thereof. There was concern that
if there's not enough parking
that could that could hurt
folks that really need to be
able to park close to their
accommodations. Otherwise,
there was interest and
excitement in the mixed use
communities that are coming.
There's several projects in
motion that we talked about, so
it was a bit of a mixed bag in
in the comments that we heard.
Excellent.
>> Yeah. Other questions.
>> Thank you for the report.
And we always value when you
come in and give us a breakdown
of what's been happening.
>> Thank you very much, I
appreciate it.
>> Thank you.
>> Next up, we have the C-TRAN
2045 plan, and it looks like we
have Taylor coming up for that.
>> Good evening, members of the
board. I'm Taylor Wright,
director of Planning and
Service Delivery with C-TRAN.
Happy to be here to provide an
update on the recent work and
progress that we've made in
C-TRAN 2045, and provide an
update on our timeline for
adoption. For the plan at the
June board meeting, we
continued discussions of plan
elements, including network
development scenarios and
capital projects to gather your
feedback, and tonight, I'll
provide a quick recap of the
plan framework. Highlight
updates made in response to
your comments and detail our
plan schedule. C-TRAN 2045
explores our regional planning
context to guide growth across
two pillars the system Plan and
supporting capital facilities
and projects addressing funding
strategies and implementation.
The list you see here is the
table of contents for the
C-TRAN 2045 plan, including all
of the elements that I've
described within those
categories that we've reviewed
in our previous workshops. As
Clark County grows, this plan
will ensure that the C-TRAN
network aligns with regional
demand and growth projected
from regional planning efforts
while maintaining long term
financial sustainability. The
plan models a range of
alternatives, including reduced
and maintained service options,
and C-TRAN 2045 recommends the
system growth scenario. This
scenario positions C-TRAN to
prepare for growth, expand
mobility options, and build the
infrastructure needed to
support our community's future.
During the June meeting, we had
a significant amount of
discussion on the future of
high capacity and rapid service
options available to C-TRAN,
and that C-TRAN is planning for
into the future. That
discussion led us to the
development of the High
Capacity Corridors Capital
Project area. This led us to
revisit the success C-TRAN has
had in creating a vine network
and a high capacity network
that today continues to grow
and will over the next few
years, and also to ensure that
this project area is
representative of integrated
investments in infrastructure,
transit service quality and
corridor investment designed
for regional mobility. High
capacity corridors aren't
defined just by a mode or
technology, but by the service
quality, permanence of
investments and their ability
to connect regional centers,
employment and population hubs,
and spur corridor development,
among other characteristics
that you see here. The high
Capacity Corridors Evolution
study outlined on this slide
will lay the future blueprint
to identify viable corridors
for higher capacity service and
prepare the groundwork for
state and federal opportunities,
including continuing to enhance
and optimize our existing
network. Bringing that onto a
single map, we see our
near-term projects continuing
to push forward, including
highway 99 BRT, the Fourth Lane
Extension project, and other
supporting improvements
including the station infill
project and exploring
opportunities for improving
next generation transit signal
priority on the network. The
High Capacity Corridors
Evolution study will follow as
the next step. Strategically
and in response to board input.
At our June meeting, we've
updated our plan roadmap to
show how future ballot
decisions tied to funding
choices. These decision points
reflect voter outcomes and
determine how we maintain our
service or grow into the future.
And visiting our schedule for
the future of the 2045 plan
adoption, we plan to move
forward by tomorrow, releasing
a review draft of this plan
document to all of our local
jurisdictions for a staff level
review and feedback that will
be followed by our public
review draft for release on
October 1st. We'll return to
this body for a formal
presentation and public hearing
November 10th and plan for
adoption on December 8th. And
with that, I appreciate the
input that you've provided on
the 2045 plan so far, and I'm
happy to take any questions
that you might have.
>> Questions.
>> Yeah. Thank you. I mean, I
think, you know, the the focus
on the high capacity makes a
lot of sense. My curiosity
really comes kind of towards
the end with the review
tomorrow, launching it to the
regional partners. But then
there's the October 1st, like
submitting for review. What
kind of impact is that feedback
from our local partners
realistically going to have?
>> Very much appreciate the
question. And we know that
based on the review and
groundwork that we've laid with
all of our regional partners to
date through this now multiyear
process, they've seen these
materials before, and what
they're seeing during this
local jurisdiction review
period is simply a compiled set
in a narrative form of
materials, concepts, and topics
that we've covered in the past.
>> Okay.
>> Thanks for clarifying.
>> Other questions,
Councilmember.
>> Thank you. Chair. The it's
not questions, it's comments.
So the first board retreat on
the 2045 plan happened over two
and a half years ago. And, and
so there's, I, I approach this
with anxiousness, very much
feeling like we need to wrap
this up and get this done. I
also though, am concerned that
there's a pushing off on some
important decisions about the
future of high capacity transit.
I said at that first board
retreat that and not just then.
I've been saying it since I
joined the board for eight
years ago, nine years ago. It's
extremely important to me that
we are providing rapid transit
to points north. In particular,
I want to see transit going to
battleground. And so it
concerns me that we are not
dealing with it in this plan.
That's already taken a long
time to get there. So there's
my concerns. Thank you.
>> Other comments or questions?
>> Can we go back to the last
slide? Yes.
>> Okay.
>> All right. I saw October 1st
on there and that's not a
meeting. I was just making sure
we had a we have a big council
hearing that day. So. No
comprehensive plan.
>> Other comments or questions.
>> I have a question. So
because our board is instructed
by our full council on how to
vote on things, I'm just I
guess, and I have checked with
my council, but I would just
like to have the opportunity,
if our council would like to
have a briefing on the plan
that would reflect policy
decision, and I don't know if.
Any funding decisions are
assumed. Are their funding
decisions assumed in that plan?
>> There are funding decisions
assumed in that plan.
>> So I would just make that
request. If we could have a
briefing at some time before
the final vote. Thank you.
>> Taylor's all kinds of
excited over there. Any other
comments or questions? All
right. We'll move on to
presentation number three.
C-TRAN Strategic Priorities
progress update. And that is
going to be with Leanne.
>> Good evening. Thank you,
Chair and Board of Directors
for some of those that weren't
here when we we adopted the we
worked with trans pro last year
between March, February and
March and identifying the five
pillars that we will be
reviewing tonight. These
strategic priorities were
adopted in September of 2025.
And now we're going to review
our QQ2 update. As you see, the.
These are the five pillars that
we are measuring, which is
customer experience, access,
ridership, employee engagement,
and stewardship, also known as
fiscal sustainability. So we
completed our there we go. Yeah,
we completed our net
performance score, which is we
met our goal and went above.
Through the process, we
determined that we will
continue to base our NPS score
with our American bus benchmark
group, or a B, b g, as our
customers are already are used
to that survey. We didn't want
to create another survey. And
ideally when we started the
process, we were going to use
the transit app, but discovered
that in the transit app, you
have to be using the transit
app in order to take the survey.
So through A, B, B, G, it's a
web based broader output that
we can put on across different
platforms. So we've continued
to use this as our Net Promoter
Score. Public dashboard is in
progress. Our our business
intelligence department has
been working with the with
staff and establishing a
foundation and identifying
definitions. So we have a clear
picture of what we are
producing data with. So that is
coming in in progress. And we
look to have that published in
the coming months of this year.
Fixed routes. We did not meet
our goal for the Q two. There
is some some contributing
factors that we identified
through that through that
quarter, where there were
multiple pavement repairs
throughout jurisdictions and
there were lane closures. And
so and during that time, there
was also like the Hazel Dale
parade and the block party
pride block party. So those
things contributed to us not
identified as not meeting our
goal. And we look forward to
seeing what Q3 will bring us
for next for next quarter. Next,
please. Employee engagement
index, that is, we created a
goal. We did not have a
baseline. So through our first
employee engagement survey this
this year, we created a
baseline of 85.6. So moving
forward, we will be preparing
for to establish a new another
round of survey that will take
place in July of 27. And we'll
have that in results next year
to see if we meet our goal next.
Transit oriented development.
Tod, we are in progress with
that. Our long range plan,
financial modeling and peer
project review has been
completed. Our project scoping
is underway, and we identified
that we would need to roll over
our consultant budget budgeted
that we budgeted for this. This
project. It the costs have
escalated as the time has gone.
So we're going to look at
putting that in our 20 next
2728 budget. Ada compliance
engineering design and plan
review is conducted,
improvements and reviewed and
approved by jurisdictions have
have taken place. And so right
now there is ITB invitation to
bid for award and approval out.
So once we get that process
solidified, we will come back
to the board for awaiting board
approval for construction on
that.
>> Next, please.
>> Budget or stewardship. We
went over right now, and this
is due to the rollover of our
2025 budget savings being
applied to our 2026 balance. So
as the year continues to
progress, we should see this
number drop down and get into
meet our goal. We'll continue
to report out as we do
quarterly. As you see. Also,
we've started to break out the
modes for cost per hour and
cost per passenger. This is a
new process. We just started
this of January of this year of
2026. So as this process
continues and we get a full
year under review, we feel
we'll be able to have a better
and complete reliable baseline
to set for us as we move
forward. And our ridership, our
regional. We did not meet, but
as you see overall, we've
exceeded expectations so far
through all the other modes.
The baseline number starting
point for ridership was at. And
we're going. The goal is
percentage. So for what we
wanted to see it grow. So in
regional we did not see our
goal for that area and that has
been. Mostly probably to a
change of regional demand over
the past few years, have just
not made adjustments to the
service during the period. What
we have started to make some
some service adjustments. This
is more along the lines of 60
and 65. So focusing on transfer
time. So we have started to
make those changes. And we're
looking forward to seeing what
quarter three looks like. I've
been told we've started to see
improvement on that. So next
quarter we hope to be meeting
our goal then. And with the
Kyvin. This is continues to be
a growing demand. As we have
stated that, you know, it's a
premium service. So we are
always looking for ways to
identify, to continue
partnership, continue education
of all our modes and what's
available and how the process
was. See van works. We also are
looking to or have started
actually last month, a pilot
program where for see van
riders, where we can do
Instacart, where they can do an
Instacart membership in lieu of
having to ride a van to get to
the store. So we're starting to
track that data right now and
hope to see that being an
improvement. So as we continue
to track these measures,
they'll help us understand
performance trends and identify
identify our strengths and
highlight where additional
focus is needed. And most
importantly, they ensure that
our daily work remains aligned
with the city. Saftich
strategic direction set by this
board and with the needs of the
community we serve, and
reminded us of why we come to
work every day. Thanks. And
that concludes my presentation.
>> Thank you.
>> Any questions.
>> Or questions?
>> Yes. Just one of the public
comments that were made. Would
it be possible for us to get
information on per line
ridership with the.
>> Yes, that is available, and
that is where the public
dashboard will be showing that
information, ridership per line.
That's what we're working
towards doing right now.
>> Okay, so it will be.
>> It is coming, it's coming.
>> Do we have an ETA on that?
>> I've been told within, let's
say the next month or two.
>> Okay.
>> Possibly sooner, but we're
just doing the fine tuning and
making sure everything is
tracking and being correct
online. So we're just making
sure that it could be sooner.
>> Okay, great.
>> Thank you.
>> Chair Lehan really quick
question. Remind me, express is
the line that goes from
Vancouver to the city of
Portland. Is that correct?
Correct. What what are we
expecting in terms of the
construction that's that's
going to occur on parts of
Interstate five near the city
of Portland and, and ridership
for that five week period.
>> Well, I'm expecting that it
will. That will definitely
affect our express goals for
that for that quarter. But we,
Taylor and team and planning
team have been doing great
strides of trying to implement
some adjustments to schedules
for the express so that to
inevitably, we know they'll
probably end up sitting in some
traffic. But to try to mitigate
that wait and. And getting
people back.
>> And forth.
>> Are we expecting to see a
reduction in ridership over
that five week period?
>> I that's a good question. I
mean, that's a I would hope not,
but I, I'm not sure if we have
any projection of what that
potential would be. Have we
seen anything, Taylor, or.
>> That will. I think we should
put Taylor on the spot again,
since he did such a good job
with the 2045 plan, but I. I
know this has been the subject
of a lot of conversation and
planning, and so maybe even
just taking a few seconds.
Taylor, and just reviewing what
some of the key changes are
going to be during that five
week closure.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
>> Thanks, Taylor. Director of
planning and service delivery.
The planning team has has been
working closely with Odot and
with Tri-met and other partners
to help mitigate the closure
period as much as we possibly
can. That being said, in the
absence of any temporary
infrastructure that will help
transit continue to move
efficiently through this
project period, we're going to
be subject to the same
congestion delays and therefore
system unreliability that
everyone in a vehicle will be
subject to. As such, we are
working to the extent that we
can to mitigate that for our
riders and provide them with
the most seamless experience
that we can. In some places.
That does mean that they will
see a change to their journey,
and others. That means that we
are working to bypass those
impacts or minimize them. So a
few things that we're going to
be doing affect routes 60, 105,
105 X and 190 route 60. We will
be making a small adjustment to
what we call the pattern. So
how that route operates over
the course of the day, it
switches its pattern. So it's
operation serving Jensen Beach
and Hayden Island in the middle
of the day. Today during the
closure period, it won't switch.
It will just operate on one
consistent pattern. And that
pattern allows us to minimize
the time that we're sitting in
I-5 traffic route 105 is the
route that will experience the
most disruption during this
period, because it is a route
that operates all day, and it's
a route that operates through
the heart of this closure
period. So route 105 during the
closure will be temporarily
suspended and replaced by route
500. Route 500 is a detour
shuttle route that will serve
99th Street Transit Center,
downtown Vancouver and Delta
Park, serving connections to
the Max yellow line, which will
have improved frequencies
during the closure period. And
our busses are scheduled for
both timed transfers to and
from the yellow line. To
minimize that delay, it's also
going to be served using a
regional fare during this
period, rather than the typical
express fare of the 105 route
105 X operating express from
99th Street Transit Center to
downtown Portland will see a
minor delay. We're going to
have trips leaving about 20 to
30 minutes earlier in the day
so that riders can get to
downtown Portland at about the
same time that they do today,
accommodating that extra
anticipated congestion while
also serving all trips on Sixth
Avenue northbound in downtown
Portland. Rather than switching
from fifth to sixth at midday
today and route 190 serving
OHSU will be moved from
Anderson Park and Ride at 28th
and Anderson to Fisher's
Landing Transit Center. That's
so that it can bypass I-5
traffic, use bus on shoulder
lanes on SR 14 and I 205, and
also to provide additional
options for riders coming from
OHSU that can use the Max red
line to connect to route 65
with some additional,
potentially more reliable
options in the middle of the
day.
>> Thank you for that update.
>> Vancouver Taylor, following
on that, are we hearing
anything from work about work
from home orders for companies?
And in Portland? I know City of
Vancouver, our employees that
work on the other side of the
river that we're implementing
work from home. Are we hearing
that or are you monitoring
those kind of things? Because
it seems like that's I mean,
the question was about
ridership. It seems like that
is going to affect ridership
more than our service level.
>> Overall, it is likely to be
a combination of some temporary
adjustments in travel patterns,
largely due to work from home
and the additional travel time
caused by congestion that is is
in all likelihood, going to see
a little bit of a decrease in
our cross River ridership
during the period of the
closure. We've heard about some
targeted work from home options
that are available to some
larger employers. But that
being said, our fundamental
goal is still with this
disruption period to provide
the most reliable and
comprehensive service that we
can, knowing that a lot of our
riders are on a spectrum of
income levels and opportunities
to be able to work from home.
So we want to ensure that we're
able to accommodate those
riders.
>> Thank you very much. And
it's me bringing this up is not
about me wanting to decrease
the efforts that you're putting
in. It's I just think as a
board, need to go in eyes wide
open, that there are a lot of
factors beyond our control. But
to your point, there are people
and backing up. We had the
lowest decrease in leadership
of any transit agency in the
state during the pandemic,
because most of our riders are
dependent on us for primary
forms of transportation. And so
making sure that we are
continuing to operate as best
we can to, to help out those
most vulnerable of our users, I
think is extremely important
goal. But just as long as we we
don't go into this expecting
that that number isn't going to
that that number is going to
stay green the next time these
numbers are presented to us.
Thank you.
>> Thank you, chair, I guess,
can you go ahead? Maybe one
slide. It's about the metrics.
I want to say it had to do with
like the cost. Yeah, yeah. You
said that. Yeah. The cost per
hour and cost per passenger.
You said that that's a recent
change. Can you just give the
background on why we shifted to
those metrics?
>> So like I said, we worked
had a workshop with Transpo
that came in last year in March
with the board and with staff.
And through discussion, we
determined that we would like
to see cost per hour in
passenger broken out by modes.
So that was the direction we
were decided to go on and we
wanted to. We're starting to
track that.
>> I mean, it seems logical.
What did we use before?
>> Before it was fixed route
paratransit was all kind of
under one big umbrella, and now
we're just wanting to break it
out to get a clearer picture.
>> That helps provide clarity.
>> Thanks.
>> Other comments? Questions.
>> All right.
>> Well then moving right along
to communications from the
chair. Let's see. First off.
BRT on highway 99. I, you know,
I, I thought this would have
been the easiest as far as
congestion with the
construction going on there.
And it, it definitely has been
an impact. And it is very
welcome to see that a lot of
those bus stations are complete.
That is. And it went great as
far as the after. It looks
great as far as on some of
those. And I'm I'm just happy
that we're at that point now
where we're starting to see a
lot of those pinch points start
to go away. And secondly. Had a
conversation with a writer on
route 71, recently moved to the
Vancouver area and is. Public
transit is the primary mode of
transportation. And I asked him
to do a comparison as he came
from Tri-met of what do you
like better? And it was I like
C-TRAN better. The reliability.
That was his answer. And I am
always amazed at when you're
waiting for a bus, how many
people are using transit the
app because any one of the
people at that bus stop,
whenever I'm waiting for one,
could tell you when the next
bus is coming and they usually
do as you're walking up. It'll
be here in like five minutes.
So utilizing that as a
communications piece as well,
because we know they're looking
at the app in any way that we
can jump on board with. That
would be fantastic because you
always sit there and go, how
can we reach folks? How can we
get out the word? And we know
they're looking at that app
because that's the first thing
I do. In fact, I time it from
where I'm going, when I'm going
to be at that bus stop, am I
going to make that bus? And if
I'm not going to make that bus,
then I go do something else for
the next 20 minutes and then
make the next one. But I'm
using the app and I'm not even
at the bus stop. I am a mile
away from it. So I that tool is
absolutely fantastic.
Communications from the.
>> Board chair. Yes, thanks. I
just want to thank C-TRAN for
the free bus service to the
county fair. I think it was
eight locations far flung, some
of them, and really helped to
make that event our largest
event very much successful. So
thank you for that.
>> Any other comments?
>> Right.
>> Yeah, thanks. Kudos to the
staff for facilitating the
August meeting. The tour. One
of my colleagues on Richfield
City Council was able to make
it, and she thought it was a
great experience. Like she's
like, I didn't know what to
expect for a few hours, but
being able to tour a lot of
different facilities and go
around, she definitely thought
it was time well spent. And so
kudos to the whole team for
facilitating that. Second thing
I have is it was something, you
know, in paper in the last
couple of days, a little bit of
a focus on our project at WSU
Vancouver. I'm curious if we
have thought about any
strategies on how to maybe work
with the university to
communicate that, because when
you drive up, I mean, I'll
admit, when I first drove up, I
was like, what are we doing up
there? But then I looked at the
footprint and it's like, the
project isn't as big as it
seems. And so I'm kind of
curious what maybe Komes we can
work with the university on to
help maybe alleviate some
concern.
>> So I think thank you for,
for bringing this up to. I'm
probably will point to Randy to
talk a little bit more about
the specifics related to kind
of the, the perceived magnitude
of the project, but I think you
stated it well. You know, we do
have a a bus only guideway that
will be that will be going into
campus. But as part of that
project design and in working
with the different permitting
agencies, it required a lot of
additional remedial
environmental work for the
surrounding adjacent area. So,
you know, we have been in close
communication with the with the
university, certainly as part
of the permanent easement that
we were able to work on and
achieve as part of this project.
But Randy, do you want to share
any more specifics on that?
>> Sure.
>> And I.
>> Will turn to Eric, who's
taking the brunt of these calls
probably every single day, it
seems. But yeah, we've heard
everything from are we building
a subdivision up there to new
roads to. It's all over the map.
So I think once we got the word
out, with the help of the
school and with the work Eric's
been doing. That a lot of it is
environmental. Be a lot of tree
planting up there. There's not
a new road. In fact, there'll
be a new intersection there
with a new light, and that will
help with some safety issues
that have been going on up
there for a long time. So it's
improved a lot though. When we
first started, I think a lot of
people didn't know what was
going on. There was a lot of
dust. And so we've gone to
great lengths to to mitigate
all of that. So do you want to
add something to that?
>> Thank you. Eric Florip
manager of communications and
marketing. And as Randy said,
just to kind of back up a
little bit the, the actual
footprint of the bus access
road and station is on the
north end of that field, kind
of adjacent to the pedestrian
path that's there off 29th
Avenue. The rest of the work
you're seeing again, is
landscaping. It's grading. It's
planting for what will be kind
of a natural area on the rest
of that field. Some of the
revisions to that happened
fairly late in the permit
review process, which is why I
think it kind of caught maybe
some people off guard once work
actually started there. But
yeah, we've been working with
the university, put additional
signage up along 29th Avenue,
so it's clear that it's a
C-TRAN project. People know to
contact us and not the school,
and we've just been doing our
best to spread that word as we
go. And I think there's
certainly a better
understanding of of the scope
of what's happening there now.
>> That's great. And, you know,
after Sunday, I've been having
a little bit of a heartburn as
far as having purple on campus,
is there any way that we could
have like a cougar taking a
bite out of the purple?
>> So for the record, there
will not be purple on that
shelter on the WSU campus. It
will be a crimson column above
the shelter.
>> Thank you, thank you.
>> Any other comments? Okay.
From the Chief Executive
Officer.
>> Thank you.
>> Thank you, chair. As Sue
mentioned with the Clark County
Fair, went was another
successful partnership this
year. Preliminary figures show
our fair shuttle service
carried about 13,000 passengers
over the ten day event. Opening
day was our busiest. We had
about 2000 using the shuttle
service. So while preliminary
shuttle ridership appears
slightly lower than 2025, may
have seen some articles stating
that the final numbers are
still being verified. But the
fair itself reported an overall
attendance decrease of
approximately 7% to last year.
But through even through the
numbers, we still. Everyone had
a good, fun and safe time and
we are enjoyed being able to
partnership and support the
event and. And Kyvin goodness.
Convenient transportation to
the event again this year. So
it was a good day.
Transportation Choice Coalition
visit. We had the the chance to
visit with them last week. They
came. Their statewide transit
advocacy organization based in
Seattle. They visited. Provided
an opportunity to showcase the
work C-TRAN is doing to support
mobility and growth in
southwest Washington. Other
team met with a staff from
planning, capital projects,
communications and Marketing to
learn more about our programs
and accomplishments, and they
enjoyed seeing of our forward
thinking and how. Again, always
in awe of how we do our BRT
system and get everything done
on time and under budget. So
they enjoyed that visit. Two
things are happening this
weekend. First is September
service changes that will be
implemented into our September
service change schedule. Most
adjustments are minor and
intended to improve service
reliability and customer
connections throughout the
system. These updates reflect
our ongoing commitment to
refining service based on rider
needs and operational
performance. Updated schedules
are available online and will
be posted throughout the system
this weekend. And last but not
least, will be the return of
C-TRAN Rodeo. This weekend
marks the return of the rodeo,
a tradition that has been
absent for several years. The
competition provides operators
and maintenance professionals
an opportunity to demonstrate
their skills, professionalism
and commitment to safety. The
Bus Rodeo will take place at
Clark College, while the
Maintenance Rodeo will be
hosted at our 65th Avenue
facility. We are also pleased
to welcome participation from
several regional transit agency
partners in the maintenance
rodeo, and events like these
celebrate the expertise of our
employees and reinforce the
culture of safety and
excellence. Excellence with
defined C-TRAN. So we're
excited to bring the long
standing tradition back and
recognize the outstanding work
of our team.
>> Excellent.
>> Last but not least, nope.
>> Okay.
>> One more.
>> There was a there was a
pause there.
>> Our infamous Taylor was
recognized, as I mentioned in
our newsletter, but wanted to
bring attention that he was
selected under 40 under 40 for
this year. So we are proud of
all the hard work he does and
being recognized for everything
that he does makes C-TRAN
successful. So thank you,
Taylor. Now I'm done.
>> Okay.
>> Hong legal.
>> Thank you for the ask. I
don't have anything for the
session.
>> Quite all right, quite all
right, all right.
>> Now that we're done with
communications. We're going to
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