A rider-first website concept for Cherriots / Salem Area Mass Transit District. Interactive prototype: arrivals, vehicle positions and alerts are simulated stand-ins for live GTFS-Realtime and Avail feeds.
Choose a language
Rider information, alerts and schedules are translated. Real-time arrival data stays numeric so it never mistranslates.
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Display
Preferences persist across pages. The interface also honours your operating system’s reduced-motion and contrast settings automatically.
Salem, Keizer and the mid-Willamette Valley
Plan a trip, watch your bus move in real time, and see every alert that affects your route. No account, no app download.
Service updates
Published from the same feed that drives the buses, so what you read here is what drivers and dispatch are working from.
Showing all 5 updates.
Salem Police have closed the eastbound lanes between Commercial and Battle Creek. Expect delays of up to 25 minutes in both directions. Buses are being held rather than short-turned, so your bus will still come.
Route 11 turns at Church St NE and rejoins the regular route at D Street. Stops 1043 and 1045 are closed for the duration of the paving work.
Cherriots Regional does not operate. Cherriots LIFT runs, but trips must be reserved by 5:00 pm on Friday. Customer service and the Courthouse Square window are closed.
Late evening eastbound trips use Marion Street instead. Westbound trips are unaffected. The last two trips of the night may run up to 6 minutes behind.
Bay A is closed while the shelter is replaced. Bay C is on the north side of the building, past the bike lockers. Real-time signs have been updated.
No updates match that filter. That is good news, it means nothing is affecting those trips right now.
Real time
Countdowns come from the vehicle itself, not the printed timetable. A bus that is running late shows the time it will actually reach you.
Reading the board
Updated moments ago. Times refresh automatically every 30 seconds.
System map
Vehicle positions refresh every fifteen seconds. Filter to the routes you ride, tap any stop for its next departures, and see detours drawn on the line rather than buried in a notice.
Illustrative diagram. The production map renders GTFS shapes over OpenStreetMap tiles.
Routes and schedules
Every route page carries the same things in the same order: status, live map, stop list, next arrivals, the full timetable and a printable PDF.
Eight of twenty-three routes shown. The full directory, search and the GTFS download live on the Routes & Schedules index.
Fares and passes
Fares cap automatically. Once you have paid the value of a day pass, the rest of the day is free, so there is nothing to calculate before you board.
Adult single ride
$1.75
Good for one boarding. Transfers are covered by the day cap below.
Day pass, capped
$3.50
Reached automatically after two rides. Everything after that is free.
Honored citizen
$0.85
Age 60 and over, riders with disabilities, and Medicare card holders.
Youth 18 and under
Free
No pass, no paperwork. Board and ride.
Riding with us
Every vehicle in the fleet kneels, carries a ramp and has two securement positions. Operators are trained to deploy the ramp on request, at any stop, without being asked twice.