Ian Davidson
@iandavidson.bsky.social
Board Vice President Cherriots🚏🚌 | Co-founder of @SalemBikeVision.bsky.social 🚲| Pragmatic optimist ☀️ | Immediate Past Chair of Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments ☀️ 🛤️ | Father of two
At Cherriots, our mission is "creating community connections." Sometimes that means connecting you from Point A to Point B, and sometimes it means connecting you to the resources you need at no cost to you because it’s what’s needed.
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
At Cherriots, our mission is "creating community connections." Sometimes that means connecting you from Point A to Point B, and sometimes it means connecting you to the resources you need at no cost to you because it’s what’s needed.
Of those 90,000 in Marion and Polk Counties who will not receive their SNAP benefits, almost 30,000 are children, about 9,000 are seniors and about 17,000 are disabled.
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Of those 90,000 in Marion and Polk Counties who will not receive their SNAP benefits, almost 30,000 are children, about 9,000 are seniors and about 17,000 are disabled.
Just tell the driver where you are going when you board the bus and your ride is free.
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Just tell the driver where you are going when you board the bus and your ride is free.
Long story short, the line was operated by Tillamook County Transportation District, but they had to suspend service on the route suddenly. PCBL is now operating the line on an interim basis, but the funding for it and the history (and likely future) of it is a local transit route.
July 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Long story short, the line was operated by Tillamook County Transportation District, but they had to suspend service on the route suddenly. PCBL is now operating the line on an interim basis, but the funding for it and the history (and likely future) of it is a local transit route.
FWIW I agree that POINT is not local transit. I think the Salem to Albany gap is the only remaining local transit gap in the Willamette Valley.
We've studied closing the gap, but presently do not have funding to start running this much needed route.
www.cherriots.org/salemtoalbany/
We've studied closing the gap, but presently do not have funding to start running this much needed route.
www.cherriots.org/salemtoalbany/
Salem to Albany Corridor Feasibility Study Project | Cherriots
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July 31, 2025 at 5:40 AM
FWIW I agree that POINT is not local transit. I think the Salem to Albany gap is the only remaining local transit gap in the Willamette Valley.
We've studied closing the gap, but presently do not have funding to start running this much needed route.
www.cherriots.org/salemtoalbany/
We've studied closing the gap, but presently do not have funding to start running this much needed route.
www.cherriots.org/salemtoalbany/
Of course!
You must be riding up the coast then 🤔. Either way, excited to watch your trip unfold here and on YouTube. Safe travels!
You must be riding up the coast then 🤔. Either way, excited to watch your trip unfold here and on YouTube. Safe travels!
July 31, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Of course!
You must be riding up the coast then 🤔. Either way, excited to watch your trip unfold here and on YouTube. Safe travels!
You must be riding up the coast then 🤔. Either way, excited to watch your trip unfold here and on YouTube. Safe travels!
@milesintransit.com @64streetcar.bsky.social if you pass through Salem, OR (which is another way of saying do you count the POINT bus as local transit?), depending when you come through, I can hook you two up with a Cherriots transit card to both pay your fare and to then keep if you collect them!
July 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
@milesintransit.com @64streetcar.bsky.social if you pass through Salem, OR (which is another way of saying do you count the POINT bus as local transit?), depending when you come through, I can hook you two up with a Cherriots transit card to both pay your fare and to then keep if you collect them!
Imagine you were at the blue dot and wanted to go to the red dot. You'd have to ride almost the whole loop. Combine that with a low frequency and you could reallocate transit resources system wide much more efficiently to better serve people.
July 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Imagine you were at the blue dot and wanted to go to the red dot. You'd have to ride almost the whole loop. Combine that with a low frequency and you could reallocate transit resources system wide much more efficiently to better serve people.
I'm so sorry and I don't blame you one bit. We fail to serve our community when the transit we provide is not useful to our community. We've made a whole lot of progress in recent years, but we still have more work to do to provide the level of service Salem really needs.
July 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'm so sorry and I don't blame you one bit. We fail to serve our community when the transit we provide is not useful to our community. We've made a whole lot of progress in recent years, but we still have more work to do to provide the level of service Salem really needs.
1st Place 🥇
• Ridership Change from 2021 to 2024
• Cost per Customer Trip Change from 2021 to 2023 - 1st
• Job Access by Transit in Jan-Mar 2025
2nd Place 🥈
• Customer Net Promoter Score in 2024
2/3
• Ridership Change from 2021 to 2024
• Cost per Customer Trip Change from 2021 to 2023 - 1st
• Job Access by Transit in Jan-Mar 2025
2nd Place 🥈
• Customer Net Promoter Score in 2024
2/3
July 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
1st Place 🥇
• Ridership Change from 2021 to 2024
• Cost per Customer Trip Change from 2021 to 2023 - 1st
• Job Access by Transit in Jan-Mar 2025
2nd Place 🥈
• Customer Net Promoter Score in 2024
2/3
• Ridership Change from 2021 to 2024
• Cost per Customer Trip Change from 2021 to 2023 - 1st
• Job Access by Transit in Jan-Mar 2025
2nd Place 🥈
• Customer Net Promoter Score in 2024
2/3
Congratulations and job well done!
July 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congratulations and job well done!
Can you ELI5 how states would have any leverage in this situation?
July 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Can you ELI5 how states would have any leverage in this situation?
100% agree.
Are there other options than becoming a "mass transit district" like Trimet, LTD, and Cherriots? Obviously, that is the path I am most familiar with.
Are there other options than becoming a "mass transit district" like Trimet, LTD, and Cherriots? Obviously, that is the path I am most familiar with.
July 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
100% agree.
Are there other options than becoming a "mass transit district" like Trimet, LTD, and Cherriots? Obviously, that is the path I am most familiar with.
Are there other options than becoming a "mass transit district" like Trimet, LTD, and Cherriots? Obviously, that is the path I am most familiar with.
In transit, the shift has been happening where "General Manager" is becoming "CEO" for that very same reason. Often, it winds up being "General Manager/CEO" because of a law or policy that defines the position as GM. So, even as the industry changes, the laws are not changed to reflect that change.
July 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
In transit, the shift has been happening where "General Manager" is becoming "CEO" for that very same reason. Often, it winds up being "General Manager/CEO" because of a law or policy that defines the position as GM. So, even as the industry changes, the laws are not changed to reflect that change.