Greeters hosted by Cherriots

Join us for this week’s Keizer Chamber Greeters, hosted by Cherriots! Start your morning networking with fellow Chamber members, sharing community updates, and enjoying some great connections.

📇 Don’t forget your business cards—this is the perfect chance to grow your network!

🚍 Presentation Overview
Cherriots will share exciting updates from their Creating Community Connections Service Enhancement Plan, a community-driven effort to expand and improve local transit.

Short-term improvements include:
• More frequent buses and longer service hours on weekdays, weekends, and holidays
• Faster trips using traffic signal priority
• Safer, more accessible bus stops

These changes could increase service by 186% on Sundays, 82% on Saturdays, and 24% on weekdays.

Looking ahead, Cherriots will highlight long-term plans:
• A new East Salem Transit Center
• Flexible, on-demand microtransit
• Bike and scooter share options for first- and last-mile connections
• Special event service and a frequent-stop downtown Salem circulator
• A unified payment system across all travel modes
• A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system for Salem and Keizer
• A centralized Cherriots operations campus

These investments are designed to connect people to work, school, healthcare, and community life—helping build a stronger, more connected region.

Transportation to meeting
 
Transit: 
Keizer Transit Center also serves as a park and ride, where folks can park and take transit to the Down Transit Center, which is where the meeting will be at. Routes 9 and 19 serve Keizer every 15 minutes. To plan your trip, go to https://www.cherriots.org/tripplanner/. 
 
Carpool: 
Plan ahead and share the ride with a colleague. 
 
Parking: 
There is plenty of on-street parking next Courthouse Square. For more information, go to https://www.cityofsalem.net/community/neighborhoods/parking/beep-beep-salem.

REMINDER:  Downtown Salem is pay to park. Consider riding the bus from the Keizer Transit Center to the Downtown Transit Center. Route 19 leaves the Keizer Transit Center and Downtown Transit Center every 15 minutes. Take the bus and see how Cherriots operates in your city.
 

✨ Free for Keizer Chamber members. Guests are welcome! (Non-members may attend up to two Greeters before joining.)

RSVP: Click “Going” to let us know you’ll be there, and invite others who might enjoy this opportunity to connect!