C-Tran offers free service on New Year’s EveFree

C-Tran encourages those celebrating this New Year’s Eve to take transit instead of driving.

C-Tran is offering free service across its entire system starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31, and continuing until the end of service. Several routes will also be extended into the early hours of Jan. 1. Routes 34, 48, 60, 65, 71 and 80; The Vine on Fourth Plain; and The Vine on Mill Plain will run until about 2 a.m.

Complete schedules for New Year’s Eve are available at www.c-tran.com/newyears.

For routes without extended hours, buses will operate on regular weekday schedules. Extended-hour route schedules vary. Use C-Tran’s Transit app to plan trips and get real-time arrival information, or call customer service at 360-695-0123.

TriMet and Portland Streetcar are also providing free service after 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.

“C-TRAN urges anyone traveling to a New Year’s Eve celebration to be safe, plan ahead and make transit part of your evening instead of getting behind the wheel,” according to the news release. “Impaired driving contributes to thousands of deaths in the United States every year, and many of those occur during the holiday season and New Year’s Eve. Consider using transit even if you’re not staying out until midnight.”