{"id":173,"date":"2019-04-19T23:41:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T23:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/?p=173"},"modified":"2019-06-18T00:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T00:45:01","slug":"173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/2019\/04\/19\/173\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Staff Report &#8211; March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TMP Update continues at a rapid pace.\u00a0 The Choices Report is complete and available on the Sandy Transit webpage.\u00a0 Michelle Poyourow, from our consulting team, introduced the choices report to the City Council and the Planning Commission in March.\u00a0 The public survey is also available on the Transit webpage.\u00a0 The survey will be given to riders and Sandy citizens.\u00a0 Consulting team members will provide Sandy residents with the opportunity to take the survey in April at various in-town locations.<\/p>\n<p>Staff were successful during the Special Transportation Funds (STF) funding process, however, 40% of those funds may be cut during this legislative session.\u00a0 These cuts would translate to a loss of approximately 4,800 rides on the STAR dial-a-ride program in the coming biennium.\u00a0 Andi Howell, the Transit Director, is working with the Oregon Transit Association (OTA) as a board member on ways to advocate to return this funding in full to the Governor&#8217;s Budget.<\/p>\n<p>A project manager, Steve Kragrud,\u00a0 was hired to manage the 2 construction projects currently underway in the Transit Department.\u00a0 Two new bus barns and the repair and upgrade of the bus wash facility are in beginning phases.\u00a0 Both construction projects are at the Sandy Operations Center.\u00a0 Steve is from the CBRE firm out of Lake Oswego.\u00a0 He has many years of construction project management experience, including the recent upgrades to the Cedar Ridge property (formerly Sandy High School).<\/p>\n<p>SAM services provided 10,875 rides in total, an overall decrease of 3.7% compared to March 2018. SAM Gresham provided 8,394 of those rides, a drop of 5.4%<em>.<\/em> SAM Estacada experienced a small, 2.5% decrease.\u00a0 STAR experienced a 10.6% decrease.\u00a0 ED a 32% decrease.\u00a0 The Shopper Shuttle experienced a 67% increase with 600 rides in March.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"363\" src=\"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/files\/2019\/06\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/files\/2019\/06\/image-4.png 660w, https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/files\/2019\/06\/image-4-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/files\/2019\/06\/image-4-500x275.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TMP Update continues at a rapid pace.\u00a0 The Choices Report is complete and available on the Sandy Transit webpage.\u00a0 Michelle Poyourow, from our consulting team, introduced the choices report to the City Council and the Planning Commission in March.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/2019\/04\/19\/173\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/transit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}