Tuesday, May 24, 2011

http://www.jesterhat.net/uk/1001310.html

I'm asking once again for a clarification.

TriMet bus stops have two designations. They are the Stop ID and the stop location.

Example: Stop ID 2619 and/or SE Hawthorne & 32nd

If you were to visit the TransitTracker (http://trimet.org/arrivals/tracker.ht...) or the stop information website (http://trimet.org/go/cgi-bin/cstops.p...) the Stop ID has prominence. If you were to visit the Interactive System Map (http://ride.trimet.org/?zoom=6&pLat=6...) or look at a sign posted at the stop the "stop location" has prominence.
http://getsatisfaction.com/foursquare/topics/trimet_portland_streetcar_max

Hail, hail, the gang's all here

http://bojack.org/2011/05/hail_hail_the_gangs_all_here.html

Crime at the Transit Center

Two Renton brothers, Kent man charged in beating, robbery at Renton Transit Center

Deepening the Self-Destruction

Dark Ages America

License for convicted former bus driver angers victim's father

http://www.nwcn.com/home/?fId=122544294&fPath=/news/local&fDomain=10202
David Sale really needs to give it a rest. The chances of Sandi actually being hired by anybody to drive commercially are little to none.

MaxRedline

The Terminator
Bike There!

How to get a new bus

In 4 easy steps!
Or just find some convieniently placed nails in the street where your bus is going down and run over them, shredding the tire/s of the bus so the bus has to get towed away and you get a new bus!

Two road supervisors and one rail

Down at 6th and salmon. Trimet operators beware! ;)

Sightings: The distracted driving car, a trike chariot, and a bread hauler

Bike Portland
Some of those are pretty cool!

STEVE MORGAN the writer/photographer behind pdxrailtransit?

http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-has-gotta-be-steve-morgan.html

Pdxrailtransit's Blog

Bird's Eye View
The Manny Motas of TriMet

I like this blog. Anybody know who is the author?

Revenge of the PCs

Malware reaches the Mac | BoJack
I have a little PC netbook and never have really understood why everybody claims macs are so great. Now they're not so great, now are they?

TriMet Considers Art Along Milwaukie MAX

"I personally hate the bridge," he admitted. "But we weren't (telling the artists) to cover up the bridge or make the bridge go away."

"I guess I just don't understand people who say, 'Make the bridge go away,'" said Gary Michael, a Milwaukie architect and artist also on the committee. "You can't make infrastructure go away."

This is my favorite part of the article.

http://www.clackamasreview.com/news/story_2nd.php?story_id=130627210526853200

TriMet considers art along Milwaukie MAX? There is really the nerve to say considers? TriMet aint considering anything. They're going to put art along PMLR whether anybody likes it or not--they always do.

Plus, Trimet is BROKE BROKE BROKE AND BROKE...

Two Months Later, Truth is Told at Fukushima

It's easy to blame Tokyo Electric and the Japanese regulators, but don't forget who built these plants: General Electric, as American as Mom and apple pie. There are dozens of them with the same design still operating in the United States. The federal government is routinely extending their permits beyond their design lives. Wonder how they'd hold up in, oh I don't know, a tornado.
BoJack

Dangerous by Design

Most Dangerous Metro areas

Orlando-Kissimmee, FL
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL

Jacksonville, FL
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
Raleigh-Cary, NC
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX
Birmingham-Hoover, AL
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA

http://t4america.org/resources/dangerousbydesign2011/states/
I question the information source....these don't sound accurate to me.

Compulsory Union Membership? No Such Thing.

Is YOUR union full of crooks, liars and incompetents? Are YOUR best interests not represented by your Local, National or International union? Have you been threatened with censorhip, censure, fines or discipline for violating "union rules"? Is your union Board of Directors a virtual kangaroo court stacked with old-time insiders who squash dissent within the ranks? Want to feel free to speak your mind about your representative union's shortcomings without fear of being penalized for doing so?

Then QUIT.
http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/05/compulsory-union-membership-no-such.html

Bus Ambulance?

Anne Arundel fire officials unveil 26-patient, bus-style ambulance

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Another new MAX station

Come on, TriMet. Really? Did you really need another whole MAX station??
Brilliant job at wasting money...
TriMet: New Rockwood MAX station opens Friday, May 27

County and state link Aloha, TV highway studies

The MAX line avoids much of the heavily traveled TV Highway corridor, and more upscale housing and business development moved north. Though TriMet Bus Line 57 down the highway is heavily used, deficiencies in pedestrian and bicycle facilities have left access to transit difficult, if not downright unsafe.
http://www.oregonlive.com/argus/index.ssf/2011/05/county_and_state_link_aloha_tv.html

Obama's Limo got stuck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BvABn7L_So

Examining the Firmware of War

When we say “John is a patriot,” we mean “John is a reliable member of our dog pack,” nothing more. The pack instinct seems more ancient, and certainly stronger, than morality or any form of human decency. Thus, once the pack—citizenry, I meant to say—have been properly roused to a pitch of patriotism, they will, under cover of the most diaphanous pretexts, rape Nanking, bomb Hiroshima, kill the Jews or, if they are Jews, Palestinians. We are animals of the pack. We don’t admire patriotism. We admire loyalty to ourselves.
http://fredoneverything.net/Patriotism.shtml

Joplin and Tuscaloose Lie in Ruins; But the Edifice of Denial Still Stands. Our Circumstances Call for Massive, Non-Violent EVOLUTION

None of this should be any surprise, of course. The failure of governance is systemic and apparently terminal. The BP Gulf Ecocide came and did not go, but Beltwayistan and Infotainmentstan have not changed their self-deceiving consensus on deep sea drilling. Fukushima came and did not go, but Beltwayistan and Infotainmentstan have not changed their self-deceiving consensus on nuclear power plant safety.

WORDS OF POWER