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How are you getting to campus?
College hires expert to
break down transpor
tation barriers fdr stu
dents
by PATTY SALAZAR
editor-in-chief
Clackamas Com m unity College
launched Imagine ClacKamas, a
survey for students, college employ
ees and community, in late 2012
to get a feel o f what respondents
think the college needs to improve.
Transportation was the second
largest barrier that the Imagine
Clackamas team found. Now the
college has found dedicated indi
viduals who can evaluate what
transportation hurdles students are
dealing with on a daily basis.
Adam Moore is a recent gradu
ate with a masters degree in civil
engineering from Portland State
University.
He was hired by the college in
March to conduct studies bn how
to improve transportation to better
suit the needs of students. Although
Imagine Clackamas was able to
identify the problem, it is now up that the college and Towncenter
to Moore during his , eight-m onth Xpress provide to the O regonC ity
fellowship to conclude w hat can and Harmony campuses. That route
be done to make students’ life'a usually takes him an hour to and
from the college.
little easier.
“It sk in d o f scâry” Moore said. 1 In addition to taking different
“To have this big huge campus routes, Moore is also setting up a
with thousands;>bf students and transportation survey that is going
we’re n o t entirely sûre how they’re to be sent out to a random sample of
students, staff and faculty. “We want
getting here.”
W hether you are riding the to know what m odes students are
bus; biking or .driving to CCC, using to get here,” Moore said. “It’s
there seems to .be some room for really im portant for what we need
improvement. To get à .better under to look at because for instance, if
standing on what the obstacles everyone is driving to campus then
students have to deal with to get we don’t need to look at bike paths.”
Moore says it’s a tough project
tp and .-from the, college, Moore is
because there is so m uch to do but
trying out different routes.
“My goal is'to try ,out all the he’s also finding some of it to be easy
different ways to get here myself?’ because there are simple fixes. One
Moore said» “Just so I have experi o f his ideas is to establish a carpool
ence with them.” Moore, who lives network. “All it takes is a pretty
inN ortheast Portland, usually rides simple fix... A light bulb goes off
his bike to a nearby bus stop, hops in your head,” Moore said.
W hile Moore is spending a lot
on the 33 and gets dropped off in
front of the college, taking him an of time on the Oregon City cam
pus, he’s also keeping a dose eye
hour and 15 minutes each way.
The second way he commutes on the Harm ony campus located
to .college .is by riding his bike to à' in Clackamas, and the Wilsonville
MAX platform, catching the green campus. Moore hopes to recom
line to Clackainas Town Center and m end a shuttle system for the
then jum ping on the free shuttle' Wilsonville campus, but knows that
it will ultimately be up to the college
on what they decide to do.
T t l m y goal to give them all
the information they need,” Moore
said. “So the college can look at a
glance and they can say, ‘we need
to apply resources here; there and
everywhere?’
So what do students think the
college can do to improve trans
portation?
M addieP izzuffaC C C student,
drives 45 minutes to the Oregon
City campus and constantly runs
into traffic, especially at the mam
entrance. “Traffic can be a beast,”
she said. “W hen I’m waiting to turn
into the college, the turning light
is so short. There will be 40 cars
waiting; I swear? Can we make that
light five seconds longer, please?”
For students who sometimes use
public transportation such as Elena
Allen, she finds herselfpreferring to
catch th e Clackamas Town Center
shuttle and then catching TriMet,
but the shuttle does not offer Friday
afternoon rides.
“Taking the shuttle and then a
bus makes it a little easier,” Allen
said. “Running the shuttle a little
later on Fridays would help.”
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