"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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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

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• 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

• Cutting Palatine Hill Back Road
• Taking Spring Garden vs Terwilliger
• Getting from Fred Meyer to Hillsdale and Back
• Looping vs Alternating

Other Routes Considered

Working Name	Proposed	Withdrawn	Who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.