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Newspaper Page TextPage 6 PROGRESS 2017 East Oregonian/Hermiston Herald Hermiston Area Regional Transit route By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN EO Media Group Legend W. Punkin Center Road Bus routes State routes/highways Rural routes Train tracks Metro area River Municipal Rivers/water Parks 395 Um ati lla N.W. 11th Street 19 Theater Sports Park E. Theater 20 F N. R oad Riverfront Park W. Orchard Avenue W. Highland Avenue 11 30 W. Orchard Avenue 10 S.W. 25 E. Highland Avenue 2 W. Moore Avenue 1 33 26 rt rpo Hermiston Municipal Airport ay W Eastern Oregon Trade & Event Center Ai W. Gettman Road Alan Kenaga/ E.O. Media Group 27 Highland Park Newport Park 32 1,000 feet Source: City of Hermiston 28 E. Main Street Hodge Park W. Joseph Avenue 4 29 9 31 W. Highland Avenue 3 13 D S. First Street th 17 er la Riv oad al R on iag 24 McKenzie Park Doctor Belt Park 514 St. 395 8 23 S.E. 10th Street S.W. 11th Street 12 7 Victory Square Park Sunset Park S. Townsend Road 6 Volunteer Park W. Ridgeway Avenue 22 207 N.E. Fourth Street 15 18 Butte Park & Funland H op Lo 207 17 N. First Street Pr le ind ce Pla W. Elm Avenue Lane 21 irst 16 l Uma ti Hermiston will see several public improvement projects in 2017, including a new free bus system, additions to the West Highland Trail project and construction on projects at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center. Transportation The city will undergo several transportation upgrades in the coming months. Starting Jan. 3, the city started a bus service in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to provide a free ﬁ xed-route bus service to all members of the public. Kayak Public Transit is now operating a bus in the city from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. The city expects to spend $125,000 a year on the bus system. The service will be offered only within Hermiston city limits, but will provide links to other bus systems that travel to surrounding cities including Stanﬁ eld, Umatilla and Pendleton. The service is free — because the service is funded by a grant from the Federal Transit Administration and because the tribe concluded it would not be able to get the number of customers necessary to make charging for the service cost-effective. “If you take in fares, it cuts into your grant,” said Byron Smith, Hermiston city manager. “And they have to hit a pretty high number of riders to break even with collecting fares.” J.D. Tovey, planning director for the tribes, said this is one of the ﬁ rst within-city services Kayak will provide, and the city of Hermiston approached the tribes about providing service. “If other cities are inter- ested, we’d be happy to talk to them — but we leave it up to the city,” he said. The city will also add two new trafﬁ c signals, at the intersections of Highway 207 and Elm Avenue, and at 11th Street and Orchard Avenue. Work on those signals will start in the coming weeks. Crews will also add a left- turn lane for southbound trafﬁ c on Highway 207/11th Street turning into Good Shepherd Medical Center. The cost for the trafﬁ c signals is about $1.6 million. Half of the funds will be provided by an Oregon Department of Transpor- tation grant, and a quarter will be paid for by the Good Shepherd Healthcare System. The remaining funds will be supplied by the city of Herm- iston. Beautiﬁ cation The city will continue to work on the West Highland Trail project, this year adding a mile of trail between Southwest 11th and 23rd streets near Riverfront Park. The project is part of a plan to eventually expand the trail into a 6.5-mile loop around western Hermiston. Construction on this portion of the cyclist- and pedestrian-friendly path will likely not start until late 2017 January 2017 Hermiston HART bus stops * Location 1. Hermiston Plaza 2. S.W. Seventh Street and W. Moore Ave. 3. S.W. Ninth Street and W. Johns Ave. 4. S.W. 11th Street and W. Joseph Ave. 5. S.W. 11th Street and W. Division Ave. 6. N.W. 11th Street and W. Ridgeway Ave. 7. N.W. Butte Drive and W. Ridgeway Ave. 8. N.W. Third Street and W. Ridgeway Ave. 9. S.W. Third Street and W. Orchard Ave. 10. S.W. Seventh Street and W. Orchard Ave. 11. S.W. 10th Street and W. Orchard Ave. 12. Riverfront Park 13. S.W. 15th Street and W. Sunland Ave. 14. S.W. 11th Street and W. Division Ave. 15. N.W. 11th Street and W. Hartley Ave. 16. Good Shepherd Medical Center 17. W. Elm Ave. (Next to Butte Park) A.M. 9:10, 10:40 9:14, 10:44 9:16, 10:46 9:17, 10:47 9:19, 10:49 9:21, 10:51 9:23, 10:53 9:24, 10:54 9:26, 10:56 9:27, 10:57 9:29, 10:59 9:34, 11:04 9:38, 11:08 9:40, 11:10 9:42, 11:12 9:45, 11:15 9:47, 11:17 P.M. 1:10, 2:45 1:14, 2:49 1:16, 2:51 1:17, 2:52 1:19, 2:54 1:21, 2:56 1:23, 2:58 1:24, 2:59 1:26, 3:01 1:27, 3:02 1:29, 3:04 1:34, 3:09 1:38, 3:13 1:40, 3:15 1:42, 3:17 1:45, 3:20 1:47, 3:22 EO ﬁ le photo A Kayak Public Transit bus picks up passengers in 2015 at Roy Raley Park in Pendleton. or early 2018, Smith said. It will cost approximately $650,000. About $150,000 will come from the city, and $513,000 from ODOT. Smith said the project will take a while to complete, as working through ODOT means the city has to deal with some right-of-way issues. The city will also make some small changes to other parks — Smith said there are plans to upgrade playground equipment at Sunset and Greenwood parks this year. The city will also under- take its ﬁ rst phase of the festival street project in 2017. “We’re trying to set up a place that can be a central gathering place,” Smith said. “I recently came from managing cities in the Midwest, and they often had courthouse squares. We’re trying to make an area conducive to community events, but still keep streets functional.” Smith said the project is still being designed, but the phases — there are three — have been identiﬁ ed by location. The ﬁ rst will be in front of city hall, where a pedestrian-friendly, curbless street will be constructed. The second will continue that Location 18. Walmart (South side of building) 19. Fiesta Foods (South front of building) 20. N.E. Sixth Street and E. Montana Ave. 21. N.E. Aspen Drive (The Aspens) 22. N.E. Fourth Street and E. Dogwood Ave. 23. N.E. Fourth Street and Catherine Ave. 24. N.E. Fourth Street and Gladys Ave. 25. S.E. Fifth Street and E. Highland Ave. 26. S.E. Columbia Drive 27. N.E. 13th Street and N.E. Madrona Drive 28. N.E. 10th Street and E. Ridgeway Ave. 29. S.E. Seventh Street and Diagonal Road 30. City Hall 31. S.W. Third Street and W. Orchard Ave. 32. S. First Street and Highland Ave. 33. Hermiston Plaza A.M. 9:50, 11:20 9:53, 11:23 9:57, 11:27 9:59, 11:29 10:01, 11:31 10:02, 11:32 10:03, 11:33 10:05, 11:35 10:08, 11:38 10:13, 11:43 10:15, 11:45 10:18, 11:48 10:19, 11:49 10:21, 11:51 10:23, 11:53 10:25, 11:55 P.M. 1:50, 3:25 1:53, 3:28 1:57, 3:32 1:59, 3:34 2:01, 3:36 2:02, 3:37 2:03, 3:38 2:05, 3:40 2:08, 3:43 2:13, 3:48 2:15, 3:50 2:18, 3:53 2:19, 3:54 2:21, 3:56 2:23, 3:58 2:25, 4:00 *Effective Jan. 3 through March 31 project north, to the future site of the senior center on Ridgeway Avenue. The ﬁ nal phase will be centered around the arch on Second Street, in front of the Hermiston Conference Center. Phase one, Smith said, will cost about a million dollars. The city plans to be done with the design by fall of 2017, and start construc- tion on the ﬁ rst phase after that. Activities The city will oversee the development of a new senior center building on Ridgeway Avenue — a 7,200-square- foot facility with a full-ser- vice commercial kitchen, a large dining room, breakout rooms and a reception area, among other amenities. The project will cost $1.6 million, with most of the funds from a community development block grant. The city will pursue funding opportunities for a parking lot, which will cost about $200,000, and will also pay for a basement — $550,000 — with funds from its own reserves. Viginia Beebe of the Hermiston Senior Center said she hopes the new center will allow for more programs. “We want to see more activities,” she said. “But we have to have more partici- pation — people willing to organize. We’re having a heck of a time with that.” Beebe said part of the reason for that problem is that currently, only one group can use the center at any time — but with the new center, which will have multiple meeting rooms, she hopes that will change. The city and county will also oversee the development of two projects at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center this year. A rodeo arena and some barns will be constructed in 2017, closing out the ﬁ rst phase of the center’s devel- opment plans. EOTEC also had a grand opening in 2016 for the events center. Smith, who is a member of the EOTEC board, said the rodeo arena and the barns will each cost about $4 million, and are funded by the city, Umatilla County, state grants and local business owners. Funds will also come from the $3 million sale of the former Umatilla County Fairgrounds (on Orchard Street) from the city to the Hermiston School District. EOTEC is the result of an intergovernmental agreement between the city and the county, and has a board of directors, including employees from the city, county and local businesses, as well as representatives from the fair. 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