Salem-Keizer Transit
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Salem-Keizer Transit, branded and popularly known as Cherriots (due to Salem's "Cherry City" sobriquet), is a public agency that operates mass transit in the Salem, Oregon area. Cherriots provides the region's bus system and CherryLift paratransit service required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. It has operated mass transit in the Salem area since 1979.
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Cherriots currently operates 25 bus routes and 2 Park and ride bus routes. Additionally, an express bus route runs between downtown Salem and Wilsonville. The express route is partially operated by SMART and connects with TriMet. Cherriots' fixed bus routes radiate from the R.G. Andersen-Wyckoff Transit Mall at Courthouse Square downtown between High and Church Streets, or the West Salem Transfer Station between Glen Creek and Taybin Roads. There are no fare zones, except a downtown "Fareless Square", in which rides are free [1]. Cherriots maintains a fleet of 83 buses, which carries over 15,000 weekday trips and about 10,000 trips on Saturday.
In 2005 a feasibility study was done by Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates looking at returning streetcar service to Salem.
