Editing McMinnville, Oregon (section)

===Transportation===
McMinnville is on [[Oregon Route 99W]] approximately {{convert|38|mi|km}} south of downtown Portland and approximately {{convert|46|mi|km}} north of Corvallis. [[Oregon Route 18]] forms a bypass around the city along its southern border and connects McMinnville with the [[Oregon Coast]] just north of [[Lincoln City, Oregon|Lincoln City]] approximately {{convert|55|mi|km}} west. Oregon Highway 18 is also known as Three Mile Lane from its McMinnville city center interchange east to the [[McMinnville Municipal Airport]]. The southern end of [[Oregon Route 47]] is just northeast of city limits and connects McMinnville with [[Washington County, Oregon|Washington County]].

Major thoroughfares in McMinnville are Highway 99W and Adams and Baker Streets which form a north–south couplet through the center of the town; Lafayette Avenue (which was at one time the route of U.S. Highway 99W), East Third Street (the main street through the downtown core), and West Second Street (the main street connecting downtown with the western residential areas). Baker Creek Road, Evans Street, Riverside Drive, South Davis Street, Fellows Street, Cypress Street and Booth Bend Road are also important collector streets connecting industrial or residential areas with the downtown core or the primary arterial streets.

[[McMinnville Municipal Airport]] is owned and operated by the City of McMinnville.<ref>[http://www.ci.mcminnville.or.us/city/departments/airport/ Airport.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609154741/http://www.ci.mcminnville.or.us/city/departments/airport/ |date=2009-06-09 }} City of McMinnville. Retrieved on April 30, 2009.</ref>

Since 1993, The Willamette & Pacific Railroad (W&P), doing business as the [[Portland & Western Railroad]] (P&W) serves McMinnville on its Westside Branch leased from the [[Union Pacific]]. Major railroad shippers include Cascade Steel Rolling Mills, Land O'Lakes Purina LLC, and McMinnville Gas. W&P/P&W maintains the historic 1912 [[Southern Pacific]] depot in downtown McMinnville, itself a remnant from the Southern Pacific [[Red Electric]] [[interurban]] passenger service which served McMinnville from 1914 until 1929. After demise of electrification, McMinnville depot continued in use for 64 years as Southern Pacific's local headquarters until the railroad was leased to Willamette & Pacific Railroad. McMinnville is a hub for P&W, with trains operating between McMinnville and Newberg, Willamina, Dallas and Albany.<ref name="austin">{{cite book | last=Austin| first=Ed| title=The Southern Pacific in Oregon | year=1987 | publisher=Pacific Fast Mail | isbn=978-0915713141 }}</ref><ref>https://www.pnwc-nrhs.org/trainmaster-recent.php?fname=TM-2024-04.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>

Historically, McMinnville had a landing for riverboats traveling up the [[Yamhill River]]. The Yamhill Lock near [[Lafayette, Oregon|Lafayette]] helped facilitate [[river navigation]] up to McMinnville. However, the use of the Yamhill River for commercial purposes was short-lived; the city's only recreational boat dock has been unusable for years. River levels are unpredictable and difficult for boaters (water levels can be very high in winter and very low in summer).

Public transit is provided by the [[Yamhill County Transit Area]]. Three city routes provide Monday–Friday service starting at 6:30 AM and continuing through 7:50 PM. A Saturday "Loop" runs from 10:00 AM through 6:00 PM. YCTA also provides intercity service to all communities in Yamhill County on four different routes; hourly weekday and infrequent Saturday service to [[Newberg, Oregon|Newberg]] and [[Tigard, Oregon|Tigard]], and weekday commuter trips to [[Hillsboro, Oregon|Hillsboro]] and [[Salem, Oregon|Salem]].

Intercity bus service is also provided by Caravan Airport Transportation and Valley Retriever between Portland and Newport, each with one daily trip in each direction stopping in McMinnville. [[Greyhound Bus]] formerly served McMinnville until 2004 with a stop on its Portland–San Francisco route, ending nearly 80 years of service on the route dating back to the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]]'s rail and bus passenger service.