Portland AFoot
These free transit passes should be available to any high schooler in need of one. There should be some sort of system for high school students that they have to sign up for if they need one of the passes so the free passes are not simply given out to everybody, but only the people who need them. I do not have one, although, I do need one, yet I don't go to a PPS school so I don't get to have one even though I am a high schooler in Portland. The system needs to be redesigned so that the kids that need the free youth passes can get them and the people who don't need them don't get them. And not just for kids going to public schools; some kids that go to private schools and other schools that are not part of the PPS system, are just there by pure luck and the great thing we call a scholarship. Us teens don't have a lot of money and with youth TriMet pass prices to rise up to $27, we need the free passes even more! We are the upcoming generation and need to be allowed access to transit even if we cannot pay for it, but just have a free pass from our high school.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
TriMet board votes to raise fares, restore some service in September
Those numbers prompted Levine to ask the board why WES riders aren't facing more than a nickel increase in their fares. “Why,” he asked, “are you penalizing people with disabilities over everybody else, including WES passengers?”
Oregon Live
Oregon Live
Filming the Police?
http://bojack.org/2011/06/filming_the_police.html
I agree with him here. Cops hate being video taped and this would be a great way to protect citizens from them.
I agree with him here. Cops hate being video taped and this would be a great way to protect citizens from them.
Videos from Today's Board Meeting
Cameron Johnson talks about change
Trimet critic Robert Butler says Jon Hunt won't return phone calls
Al goes in front of the board-2 versions
A fun day at the Trimet Board meeting!
Steve Fung says we need windows THAT OPEN! (that would be nice, now wouldn't it?)
Michael Levine accuses trimet of Discrimination
Joy Kovacks says the 43 bus needs to continue (yes it does!)
Trimet critic Robert Butler says Jon Hunt won't return phone calls
Al goes in front of the board-2 versions
A fun day at the Trimet Board meeting!
Steve Fung says we need windows THAT OPEN! (that would be nice, now wouldn't it?)
Michael Levine accuses trimet of Discrimination
Joy Kovacks says the 43 bus needs to continue (yes it does!)
This just sounds hilarious
A bike helmet made out of cardboard? And it is supposed to be better than one made out of plastic like the usual helmets?
Throw away the tin foil.
Throw away the tin foil.
Cascade Policy Institute ♥s MAX Light Rail?
How times change.
It was only last fall, it seems, that the Institute was busy opposing another MAX project, the Milwaukie line, in its written publications, by claiming, among other things, that it would reduce bus service. It was only last fall that we were treated to the spectacle of ATU 757 members cheering on John Charles after a rousing anti-MAX speech before the TriMet board, in which he gleefully promoted the theory that MAX epansion was a grave threat to bus operations. But here we have the CPI demanding that TriMet increase MAX service, or else be subject to what would essentially be a penalty of over $100 million--"one-third the total federal grant agreement"--either of which would require cuts in service elsewhere, likely including bus service.
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