C-Tran is making changes to some of its routes that could affect how its passengers get around the community.
Effective Sunday, seven routes will be changed, but only to make service more efficient, C-Tran officials say. No substantial changes are involved.
“A good way to describe the changes would be ‘system tweaks’ — slight changes in time points, extensions to trips on certain routes and, in one case, an added trip on one route,” C-Tran spokeswoman Christine Selk said in an email.
“No routes are being cut, none are being added, and there are no significant changes to service frequency or duration,” she wrote.
On weekdays, the first westbound Vine bus leaving Vancouver Mall will now leave at 4:25 a.m., five minutes earlier than normal. Thus all time points will shift five minutes earlier as the bus moves downtown.
Also during weekdays, Route 6 will add a new eastbound trip from Fruit Valley Road serving the Vancouver Campus of the VA Portland Health Care System, leaving Fruit Valley at 8:09 p.m. and arriving at the Vancouver VA campus at 8:21 p.m.
The last Route 30 on weekdays leaving Broadway and Evergreen at 8:53 p.m. will serve the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center. The westbound trip from Fisher’s Landing at 9 p.m. will extend to serve Broadway and Evergreen.
On Saturdays, the eastbound trips leaving Broadway and Evergreen at 5:48 p.m. and 6:18 p.m. will also extend to serve Fisher’s Landing. The westbound trip leaving Fisher’s Landing at 6 p.m. will also serve Broadway and Evergreen.
On Sundays, the bus leaving Broadway and Evergreen at 5:48 p.m. will to go Fisher’s Landing. The westbound bus will leave Fisher’s Landing at 6 p.m.
The eastbound Route 37 on weekdays will leave Evergreen Boulevard and C Street at 12:06 a.m. and 12:36 a.m. They will also extend to serve Fisher’s Landing.
The first southbound Route 60 trip on weekdays from Broadway and 12th Street will depart at 4:51 a.m. instead of 4:49 a.m. It will arrive at Delta Park/Vanport at 5:02 a.m.
The Ridgefield Connector trip that usually leaves the 99th Street Transit Center at 4:47 p.m. will now leave at 4:30 p.m. No other times are affected.
Route 190 won’t serve the stop at Southwest Terwilliger and Southwest Campus Drive in Portland. Instead it will serve a new stop at Southwest U.S. Veterans Road & Building No. 16.
These changes are one of three service changes C-Tran does in a year.
