“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -Martin Luther King, Jr

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Bye Bye Boring?

Boring Petitions to Leave TriMet | Sandy Post

TriMet building bike and ride facilities at Beaverton, Gresham Transit Centers

Since the bike and ride at Sunset transit center worked out so well?

Portland Going Nowhere

Nervous on the MAX

http://blog.oregonlive.com/myoregon/2011/03/letters_to_the_editor_state_bu.html

TRIMET (mis)MANAGEMENT USING UNDERHANDED METHODS AGAINST UNION MEMBERS

http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/03/trimet-mismanagement-using-underhanded.html

Slugging--The People's Transit

http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/slugging-the-peoples-transit-28068/

In other news today...saw a 36 down at North Terminal with a 2900 of all buses!
Never got a chance to get a picture of it, though....wish I could've....

Wow. Just got my fare checked on a bus! (No I will not say which one or where today). I've been riding buses for years and this is the first time that's ever happened.

Famous Quotes
Hit-and-run driver uses bus to flee accident, police say

"When you're in a hole, build more light rail."

You know the adage, "When you're in a hole, stop digging"? TriMet has revised it to: "When you're in a hole, build more light rail." Despite its financial distress, TriMet now plans to build another MAX line, its most expensive yet. Construction is slated to begin this summer on a segment connecting Portland and Milwaukie, a sleepy town of 20,000. The price tag: $1.5 billion. As the line would stretch only 7.3 miles, the cost per mile would be a little more than $200 million. The federal government has agreed to foot half the bill, and TriMet plans to fund most of the rest by floating $724 million in bonds.
http://www.bloghouston.net/item/8689

Cigarette-butt bandit

Cigarette-butt bandit crashing TriMet fare machines, officials say

Take TriMet to the Zoo!


New 9-11 footage

A Perspective of Portland, Oregon

TriMet: Public Meetings & Hearings - SEAC

http://trimet.org/meetings/seac/index.htm

Another spineless moment

http://bojack.org/2011/03/another_spineless_moment.html

A recommendation being overlooked?

A quick observation about today’s announcementby TriMet that they’re creating a new citizens’ safety committee: TriMet says the the new committee was a recommendation of last year’s safety task force. This isn’t true.
http://portlandafoot.org/2011/03/a-recommendation-being-overlooked/

Safety and C-Tran, TriMet

http://c-tranrider.blogspot.com/2011/03/safety-and-mass-transit.html

Bus Driver Attacked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrT6ACV_pCw

Please Explain This...

http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/03/trimet-throws-money-away-with-impunity.html?showComment=1299615827595#c5874812525651431475