south metro area regional transit founded 1989 headquarters 28879 sw boberg road locale wilsonville oregon service type bus service dial a ride routes 9 fleet 35 operator city of wilsonville website ridesmart.com south metro area regional transit smart is a public transit system operated by the city government of wilsonville oregon united states . the system currently consists of eight routes and is funded by local businesses . it was created when wilsonville petitioned to withdraw from the trimet service district in the late 1980s . offices of the agency are in the former city hall off wilsonville road . 1 contents 1 history 2 current services 3 references 4 external links history edit after complaints from local business owners who felt they were having to pay too much in payroll tax to support the regional transit agency trimet with little or no bus service being provided in exchange the city decided to file a formal petition to withdraw from the trimet district . 2 such withdrawals were allowed if meeting certain conditions under a new law enacted by the oregon legislature in 1987 . wilsonville s petition to withdraw from the trimet district was approved by the transit agency s board on november 30 1988 and the withdrawal took effect on january 1 1989 . a condition of the trimet ordinance permitting the withdrawal was that wilsonville had to provide replacement transit service for at least one year . 2 the change enabled the city to reduce the rate of the payroll tax levied on area businesses for transit from 0.6 percent to 0.3 percent . initially the city provided the required replacement service by contracting with trimet which in turn contracted with buck ambulance to give service with vans . 3 however wilsonville later prepared to begin managing the service directly and to increase marketing of it in hopes of improving ridership . in 1990 the city council approved naming the wilsonville bus system wart for wilsonville area rapid transit . 4 aware that the name was likely to inspire a few jokes city officials proposed using a leaping frog in a new logo to be created in order to show they had a sense of humor . 3 the service was free at all times . in 1993 following a city sponsored contest to rename the transit system the city council approved changing wart to smart or south metro area rapid transit . the first full size buses were put into service later the same year . 5 most service until then was dial a ride door to door service . following the acquisition of five used full size buses smart introduced a new fixed route 201 connecting wilsonville with trimet service at the regional agency s tualatin park and ride lot and its barbur boulevard transit center on november 1 1993 and this was followed by the launching of a route to oregon city route 202 connecting with other trimet routes there . 6 from 1999 to 2000 a lunchtime bus service was operated between businesses and the commercial center . 7 until fall 2005 no fares were charged for any smart routes . as of 2006 update only rides within wilsonville are free . in 2009 trimet s westside express service wes commuter rail line began connecting with smart buses at wilsonville station . 8 smart opened a new bus transit center next to the rail station named smart central that january . a minor change to smart s name was made around the beginning of 2009 when rapid was changed to regional making the full name south metro area regional transit but leaving the acronym unaffected . current services edit smart central at wilsonville station smart has three routes that serve only wilsonville going east west and north south . however it is noteworthy that the three other routes go well beyond the city limits and the entities who pay for the service . one route now called 2x heads north to tualatin and southern portland the barbur blvd. tc connecting with trimet and another route 3 goes southeast to the city of canby connecting with canby area transit . the third route 1x is most unusual ; it makes an almost 30 mile non stop run to salem with connections to salem keizer transit cherriots . 7 service to oregon city is no longer provided . routes 4 5 and 6 serve only wilsonville but route 5 connects with trimet route 96 at commerce circle at the northern end of the city . on august 5 2013 smart began operating route 8x 9 an express route connecting the wilsonville transit center with trimet s beaverton transit center via interstate 5 and highway 217 . 10 because the wes commuter rail service connects the same two points route 8x only has one trip per day in each direction from wilsonville at 5 20 a.m. and from beaverton at 10 05 p.m. 11 and is intended to provide service at times when wes does not operate . 9 all of smart s routes serve the transit center smart central with timed connections between routes . the system has a total of more than 35 vehicles in its fleet including buses vans and a trolley replica bus . 12 with transfers it is possible to use public transit to travel between portland and salem . using smart is cheaper than taking direct and faster greyhound or amtrak cascades service . citation needed route 1x salem route 2x barbur route 3 charbonneau canby route 4 wilsonville rd route 5 95th ave route 6 canyon creek route v villebois route 8x beaverton route 9x downtown portland references edit kulla josh . out with the old in with the new . wilsonville spokesman december 12 2007 . a b federman stan december 1 1988 . tri met approves withdrawal of three communities . the oregonian . a b brinkley pam january 15 1990 . bus system may grow into wart . the oregonian . p. b2 . brinkley pam january 19 1990 . wilsonville names bus line wart . the oregonian . wilsonville looks smart gives new name to transit system june 24 1993 . the oregonian . grund john m. october 28 1993 . free wilsonville bus route is smart move . the oregonian metrowest and metrosouth editions . a b mcmullen danielle . hungry restaurants line up for customers . april 11 2001 wilsonville spokesman . washington county commuter rail fact sheet october 2007 . trimet . retrieved on april 13 2008 . a b runquist justin august 8 2013 . wilsonville expands bus service to accommodate drove of new workers . the oregonian . retrieved august 15 2013 . route 8x beaverton tc . smart . retrieved september 30 2014 . route 8x schedule . smart . retrieved september 30 2014 . about smart . smart . retrieved september 30 2014 . external links edit media related to south metro area regional transit at wikimedia commons v t e mass transit in the portland metropolitan area bus trimet list of transit centers c tran canby area transit mount hood express sandy area metro south clackamas transportation district south metro area regional transit rail max light rail list of stations blue line green line orange line red line yellow line portland streetcar a loop b loop ns line heavy rail wes commuter rail heritage rail vintage trolley willamette shore trolley other biketown bike share fareless square hop fastpass i 205 transitway metro portland aerial tram portland transit mall tilikum crossing transit bridge transportation in portland oregon union station italics denote lines or services which are planned under construction or otherwise not operating at the present time . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title south metro area regional transit & oldid 706288186 categories bus transportation in oregontransportation in wilsonville oregontransportation in washington county oregon1989 establishments in oregonhidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from 2006all articles containing potentially dated statementsall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2009commons category template with no category setcommons category without a link on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 february 2016 at 14 12 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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