What will the picture of the day be today?

It's the Max!

The Blue Line to Gresham at Library and SW 9th max station on one of those nice sunny days we used to have before the rain came over here in Portland, Oregon...remember those? such a distant memory already...

Mysterious spill in the Salmon Bay

KATU Reports
Koin Local 6 Reports

Protest at TriMet board meeting

Carla Castaño, Koin Local 6

Police investigate stabbing near Gateway TC

Michael Russell, The Oregonian
if TriMet didn't blow so much of their money on new light rail lines, maybe they could have more security at and around the major transit centers such as Beaverton TC and Gateway TC. Just a thought...

Transit and snow and bikes, oh my!

Joseph Rose, The Oregonian-
'Portland readying snow plows for 'dry run' show'
'Are China's giant tunnel buses coming to America?' (alright, these buses are just weird...i didn't even know these existed)
'Cars crossing bike lanes, bicyclists slapping cars: In memory of Brett, let's share the road'  

What IS TriMet Doing?

Blog post, here
Punkrawker tosses some good questions about TriMet. What is the management doing?

Members say transit agency breaks the law by freezing wages

TriMet union pickets downtown board meeting

and the articles still manages to mention the infamous failed 'sickout'...really, people. Forget about it. The sickout failed and a good thing that it did. This is not the time for something like that. Maybe the time will come somewhere down the road, but not now. Thankfully the majority of operators ignored this and kept everything on time.

Now this is cool...

Local teen gains life lessons as mayor for a week, Portland Tribune

The little treehouse that could

Article Here
Why would they focus on such a little thing as a kids' treehouse?