"Efforts to increase ridership on the #39 to help keep the route alive," since 2005.
Extending Line #39 to Hillsdale
A Working Group of citizens and college staff proposed a modified route that has improved the usefulness and performance of the #39. The FIRST RIDE for the #39 commenced Sunday Morning, June 4th, 2006, at 11:29, departing fom Lewis & Clark College! TriMet has Transit Tracker and Trip Planner working with the new route, so there's no excuse — Get on the bus!
The New Route
| Working Title: Small Loop via Spring Garden
Reversing along Spring Garden back to L&C |
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Map drawn with OpenOffice.org Draw by John Miller. Click on the map to get just the map in your browser. Your browser may show a reduced map to begin with but the cursor will be a magnifying glass. Click again, and you'll have a large map that you can scroll over. |
| DETAILED ROUTE DESCRIPTION |
Supporting Information
- Description of the First Ride on June 4th, 2006.
- Schedules for weekdays and weekends.
- Marketing Ideas for #39 test periods
- Summer Ride Ideas
- Destinations - where it can take you.
- Stops - All Bus stops along the proposed route.
- Transfers to other TriMet lines.
- L&C Shuttle
- L&C Turnaround and Layover (No text Yet).
- Fred Meyer and Safeway
- Snow Route
Background and Context
- The Problem
- The History of #39
- The Current #39 Route
- Goals
- Riders
- Ideal Route
- What the new line will do
- Timeline of the re-design effort
- The Working Group
Route Segments
There were four aspects of the route that we had to evaluate and choose between.- Cutting Palatine Hill Back Road
- Taking Spring Garden vs Terwilliger
- Getting from Fred Meyer to Hillsdale and Back
- Looping vs Alternating
Other Routes Considered
The descriptions, Pros, and Cons of these previously considered routes are from earlier incarnations of this web page. Each route has a separate page. Alternatives 5, 6, and 7 are on paper maps only at this time.
This is background, historical info only, for the record of the project.
| Working Name | Proposed | Withdrawn | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Hillsdale CounterClockwise | mm/dd | mm/dd | Miller |
| 2. Lasso Hillsdale-Multnomah | mm/dd | mm/dd | Miller |
| 3. Hillsdale Clockwise | mm/dd | mm/dd | Dave & Dixie |
| 4. Two Way Hillsdale-Multnomah | mm/dd | mm/dd | Miller |
| 5. Safeway | mm/dd | 08/01/05 | Don Baack |
| 6. SW Community Center | mm/dd | 08/01/05 | Zach Horowitz |
| 7. Split Center | 7/12/05 | 08/01/05 | Bryan Backler |
| 8. #139 = #1 Vermont + #39 | 08/01/05 | mm/dd | TriMet |
| 9. Two Way via Spring Garden | mm/dd | mm/dd | Group |
| 10. Two Way via Terwilliger | mm/dd | mm/dd | Group |
| 11. Small Loop Spring Garden** | mm/dd | - | Group |
| 12. Large Loop Spring Garden + Terwilliger | - | - | Weiss/Baack |
**This is actually the winning route.
Historical note
There was an Open House on Feb 25th and 27th, 2009... TriMet is holding a number of open houses about proposed service cuts, including weekend service on Line #39. TriMet is proposing discontinuing Saturday and Sunday service due to low ridership, and the economic recession.
Here are some comments about that.. [Link]
Weekend Service on Line #39 was cut that year, and never restored.