A representative from the Lower Columbia Nature Network advocated for a new seasonal transit shuttle to improve public access to regional green spaces and state parks. She highlighted that transportation is a major barrier preventing many residents, including elders and dementia patients, from visiting natural areas like Lewisville Park, Beacon Rock, and Battleground Lake. Implementing a shuttle service would allow more of the community to safely experience the physical and mental health benefits of the outdoors.
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C-TRAN Board of Directors Meeting · Jun 09, 2026 · 4:33–4:46 · Watch on CVTV ↗
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3:31 like Vancouver Lake, Frenchman's Bar, Lewisville Park, our state parks like Beacon Rock, Paradise Point, and of course, Battleground Lake State Park. As you also probably know, many of our larger communities around the country have shuttle services for seasonal access. And of course, we've got the great Skamania Gorge system that goes up to Dog Mountain and up to White Salmon and up to Hood River. Portland just announced their shuttle service to Washington and Forest Park, their big park systems. So just to put an idea on your many idea boards, I'm happy to talk with you in the future because representing and working with over 40 partners, we wanna help address accessible and adaptive access to our local park systems. So maybe for next year, we can start planning and thinking now about what could be those opportunities for a seasonal shuttle system to get folks, including our elders, we have a partner Hope Dementia
4:29 that has a past system to get our dementia patients and caregivers out to local parks because we know our natural systems are healing and healthy and enjoy physical, emotional, mental health benefits. So I thank you for your time and consideration. I would love to talk with you or your staff in the future with some of our LCNN partners to talk about what a shuttle system could look like next summer. Thank you for your time. - Thank you. Next up, we have Douglas Tweed. - Okay, is this on? I guess it is on, okay. Yeah, Douglas Tweed, Camas. I wanna speak about TriMet's history of over predicting light rail ridership. Last October at the C-TRAN board meeting right here, IVR executives were asked about forecasted versus actual ridership results for TriMet's light rail system. The program administrator replied in a letter dated
5:28 December 10th last year, but he only discussed the TriMet Max Green Line and Orange Line, and he just gave information about the opening year ridership saying nothing about ridership since then. It has been very poor. For the last several years, these two lines are at about 1/3 of their forecasts. Now, the Max Green Line ridership forecast for 2009
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start planning and thinking now about what could be those opportunities for a seasonal shuttle system to get folks, including our elders, we have a partner Hope Dementia that has a past system to get our dementia patients and caregivers out to local parks because we know our natural systems are healing and healthy and enjoy physical, emotional, mental health benefits. So I thank you for your time and consideration. I would love to talk with you or your staff in the future with some of our LCNN p