Cascades East Transit announced a $3.4 million partnership to fund improvements to Bend’s bus system Friday in a press conference including elected officials, City staff, and local business and education leaders. The three-year partnership will facilitate the first meaningful expansion of the chronically underfunded transit system, which has not added hours or routes in the […]
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Letters 4/14-4/21
IN REPLY TO “BURSTING AT THE SEAMS” (4/15) Yes, the city did get its UGB plans sent back from the state in 2008. But you neglect to inform that they also didn’t follow any of the state’s laws about the UGB, so naturally the plans were rejected. If Bend didn’t think it was a special […]
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Bend 2030 Hosts Transportation Forum
Bend is growing whether you like it or not, and with more people comes more traffic. If the city grows to 110,000 by 2030, as population models predict, how will they all get around town? This is the question the Bend 2030 Transportation Forum seeks to address. “How we respond today to Bend’s future needs […]
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Public Transit’s Uphill Climb
COIC rolls out transit education efforts
Since Oregon State University announced its plans to plot a new campus on Bend’s westside, there has been murmuring (sometimes more) about how the addition of hundreds of new students will clog the thruways stretching across town. That discussion falls at the forefront of a larger issue: the paltry offering of public transportation in Central […]