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Tillamook County Transportation District
Tillamook County’s bus service, known as “The Wave,” includes a route from Tillamook to the Portland metro area. Route 5
Tillamook-Portland provides two round trips per day, seven days a week, with stops at the Tillamook Forest Center, Banks,
North Plains, Tanasbourne, and the Sunset Transit Center. The route continues to Union Station in downtown Portland.

Private and Non-Profit Transit Providers
Ride Connection
Ride Connection, a Portland-based non-profit organization, provides several kinds of service in Washington County:
door-to-door paratransit for seniors and people with disabilities; rural transportation for the general public; rural and
urban job access for transportation-disadvantaged commuters; circulator routes for seniors in King City and Beaverton;
and four fixed-route transit services. The latter services consist of GroveLink serving Forest Grove, the Washington Coun-
ty Community Bus connecting Forest Grove, North Plains, Banks and Hillsboro, the Tualatin Shuttle, and North Hillsboro
Link. Ride Connection also offers a number of educational programs intended for older adults and people with disabili-
ties, including one-on-one travel training and group travel training. Ride Connection is funded through an agreement
with TriMet, and with grants from federal, state, foundation, corporate and individual entities. In 2011 Ride Connection
provided over 416,000 rides, and offered travel training to over 1,000 participants in 2011.

OC&W Coachways
Northwest POINT (Public Oregon Intercity Transit) is one of three inter-city shuttle bus routes in Oregon operated by the
private sector OC&W Coachways, with supplemental funding from ODOT. This particular route -provides twice-daily round
trips between Portland Union Station, Cannon Beach, and Astoria. The service includes a “flag stop” in Manning along
Highway 26 in western Washington County.

Employee and Student
Shuttles
Washington County’s two larg-
est employers, Intel and Nike,
each operate fleets of employee
shuttles. In addition to trans-
porting employees between
various corporate campuses
in the County, the shuttles also
provide connections to public
transit. The shuttles are a valu-
able service, encouraging em-
ployees to use transit instead
of driving, and reducing the
inconvenience of the “last mile”
gap between transit and the
workplace. The most significant
employee shuttles that connect
with transit are: PCC Shuttle Bus
• The Intel shuttle connecting Orenco Station MAX station with Ronler Acres campus;

• The Intel shuttle connecting Fair Complex MAX station with Jones Farm campus; and
• A group of Nike shuttles that connect to Millikan Way, Beaverton Creek, and Elmonica MAX stations. Nike
reported 84,000 person trips on its five employee shuttles in fiscal year 2012 (roughly 350 trips per aver-
age weekday).

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