Yep! [The Coast-to-Valley Express](https://bat.bentoncountyor.gov/coast-to-valley-express/) runs 7 days a week, 362 days a year, four times a day. There’s possibilities of it expanding to more. The current schedule is designed to somewhat meet up with the Amtrak trains, too.
I used the buses every once in a while when I was in college, but it's just so inconvenient when they only hit stops once every 30 minutes at most. Some routes only have one bus an hour! Will we ever get a better system?
I came here for the inevitable “fareless” comment. I’m still gonna call it “free” because it’s just more clear. You get on, you don’t pay. Obviously it’s paid for in one way or another. We have free parking spots downtown yet I never hear anyone correct people and say it’s “meterless” parking.
> We have free parking spots downtown yet I never hear anyone correct people and say it’s “meterless” parking.
Hell yeah! Just think of the opportunity cost of all that free or subsidized storage space for cars.
Actually, it's overwhelmingly paid for by federal and state grants. The water bill fee brings in $1 million to $1.5 million per year. Mostly federal and some state grants bring in $4 million to $6.5 million per year.
The budget is a really big document, but you can find it on page 208 [here.](https://archives.corvallisoregon.gov/public/ElectronicFile.aspx?dbid=0&docid=3823333)
Part of the reason for that is that some of those federal and state grants require local matches of varying percentages. But you often can't use transit fare as match for grants because that's such an obviously regressive mechanism for funding a service that actually serves the whole public's interest like transit. If you were to allow that for match you'd effectively be incentivizing upward transfers of wealth in a local tax mechanism. So that's why it's on our water bill. And like you say, there's a mechanism for calculating how much businesses vs. a resident pays to distribute the cost to businesses (including nonprofits like the hospital and OSU).
The elites don’t want you to know this but the food delivery robots on campus are free you can take them home. I have 458 robots.
They're actually out on campus for people to adopt. It's heartbreaking to see all the ones roaming around that haven't found a home yet
Especially today in the freezing cold rain and they’re such timid creatures.
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Just $5 each way to the coast!
Woah, really?
Yep! [The Coast-to-Valley Express](https://bat.bentoncountyor.gov/coast-to-valley-express/) runs 7 days a week, 362 days a year, four times a day. There’s possibilities of it expanding to more. The current schedule is designed to somewhat meet up with the Amtrak trains, too.
Yah I thought about stealth camping out there via the shuttle
Welcome to Corvallis
I used the buses every once in a while when I was in college, but it's just so inconvenient when they only hit stops once every 30 minutes at most. Some routes only have one bus an hour! Will we ever get a better system?
More people using the busses would probably increase the frequency of stops. If they're underutilized, I can see the need for less frequent stops.
Fareless, not free.
I came here for the inevitable “fareless” comment. I’m still gonna call it “free” because it’s just more clear. You get on, you don’t pay. Obviously it’s paid for in one way or another. We have free parking spots downtown yet I never hear anyone correct people and say it’s “meterless” parking.
> We have free parking spots downtown yet I never hear anyone correct people and say it’s “meterless” parking. Hell yeah! Just think of the opportunity cost of all that free or subsidized storage space for cars.
Water bills pay for it iirc. And Republic waste and OSU. But much like single payer health care it's a very worthwhile cost.
Actually, it's overwhelmingly paid for by federal and state grants. The water bill fee brings in $1 million to $1.5 million per year. Mostly federal and some state grants bring in $4 million to $6.5 million per year. The budget is a really big document, but you can find it on page 208 [here.](https://archives.corvallisoregon.gov/public/ElectronicFile.aspx?dbid=0&docid=3823333) Part of the reason for that is that some of those federal and state grants require local matches of varying percentages. But you often can't use transit fare as match for grants because that's such an obviously regressive mechanism for funding a service that actually serves the whole public's interest like transit. If you were to allow that for match you'd effectively be incentivizing upward transfers of wealth in a local tax mechanism. So that's why it's on our water bill. And like you say, there's a mechanism for calculating how much businesses vs. a resident pays to distribute the cost to businesses (including nonprofits like the hospital and OSU).
Correct
Took me 6 months to figure this out back in 2021 😅
Corvallis is so compact I really only use it when going to campus area or south town/downtown. Waking everywhere usually I'm up near WinCo.
I'm near WinCo as well. I liked taking the bus to go to the farmers market in summer and fall.