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

Monday, May 2, 2011

Finally, a live video feed from Fukushima

BoJack

A renegade is brought to justice

"Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: Portlandia. The dream of the '90s is more alive than ever."
BoJack
Maybe Portland should change its name to Portlandia then if the so-called "dream of the '90s is more alive than ever."

Chris Smith at Portland Transport

CRC Picks Managers

MAX leaves the station with 2-year-old, not father

http://northportland.katu.com/news/news/max-leaves-station-2-year-old-not-father/440184
Don't you just love how the reporters in the video sound so skeptical of TriMet blaming the father instead of the operator?
And to comment on the MAX doors being kept open longer as a solution? Well, 15 seconds should be enough. Altering this to make the time longer would change the train schedules slightly and possibly make the trains run at slightly less frequency as they do, especially during rush hour, which would make a lot of people unhappy. If you can't board the train in the 15 seconds the doors are open, I guess it's not your train, now is it? 
ATU 757 to boycott driver of the Year ceremony!

Osama bin Laden: Dead, deceased, no longer viable

http://oldtownperspective.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-dead-deceased-no-longer.html

BIKE PORTLAND

Bike signal bill passes House committee (bad idea, in my opinion)
3-week Esplanade detour announced for new light rail bridge
TriMet says father/child separation incident is why bike trailers aren't allowed

MAXREDLINE

THERE IS NO TEAM SIX
PORTLAND FINDS ANOTHER $11 MILLION UNDER THE CUSHIONS
FORTUNATELY, IT DOESN'T APPEAR THAT HE WAS CAPTURED

TRIMET RELEASES VIDEO OF MAX INCIDENT

Here
Ya know, this guy doesn't act too worried when the train departs. he walks around a bit and then digs (what appears to be) a cell phone out of the bike trailer. He also doesn't act too excited or anything when the supervisor brings his child and bike back to the MAX station.
Really worried, huh?
This incident was completely the father's fault. It actually surprises me that TriMet is defending the MAX operator, but I'm glad they are. This MAX operator was not at fault here.

This doesn't sound right...

Do TriMet buses really have Transit Signal Priority? I didn't think any buses did. What I thought was that TriMet had looked into it, but never gone through with it.
Now if TriMet really did have it and it worked for late buses, that would be great.

Day 1 of the Ballard to Seattle Commute

Transit Sleuth
He got lucky. Sounds like he has great transit access to and from his house.

Typical Boregonian...

Still, even after the highly embarrassing Green Line incident involving Bailey and his son in 2009, TriMet hasn’t changed its training or even sent a courtesy memo to MAX operators about the risks of children and parents being separated. What's more, no training bulletins in the past 18 months have urged operators to be more vigilant of parents with young children on platforms. 
TriMet blames North Portland father of 2-year-old for MAX separation over weekend (video)

Eastbank Esplanade Detour: May 9-27, 2011

TriMet
TriMet News Release

BOJACK ON EVERYTHING

School tax shenanigans in Eugene even worse than Portland
Oregonian: "Please don't read our editorials back to us"
Portlanders ready to join Japanese nuke cleanup
Thick as a brick
Another quake up at Hanford
Why 10:30 on a Sunday night?
Japan admits hiding radiation data from public