But he is still getting paid the big bucks. So what's going on here, TriMet?
http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/09/anybody-seen-harry.html
Saturday, September 3, 2011
And here you have it! The most amazing event ever!
The MAX 25th year anniversary celebrations!
Now i would sure like to know how much money TriMet wasted on these, not one, but two parties for MAX blue line. From the video, it sure looks like they did a whole lot at the initial parties, but that advertising! Did you guys see how much fancy advertising and promoting of this MAX event that TriMet did? That was insane! They got a whole news publication about the stinkin event.
Now all of that money could have been used for better things. Humm...let's think. The money used to fabricate this whole event could have been used to make two dozen or more schedules for the bus drivers to keep in their pouches for the passengers that come up and ask for them and can't realistically get them much any other way. OR, how about this: the money could have been used to help repair older buses and maybe pay some people to deep clean TriMet's bus fleet. Every bus rider who has ever ridden or even been in a TriMet bus knows that those old things desperately need that. But that's right. TriMet will only do things for their pride and joy, the MAX lines, right?
Oh boy. The long list sure goes on and on and on, doesn't it? We all know it does.
Now i would sure like to know how much money TriMet wasted on these, not one, but two parties for MAX blue line. From the video, it sure looks like they did a whole lot at the initial parties, but that advertising! Did you guys see how much fancy advertising and promoting of this MAX event that TriMet did? That was insane! They got a whole news publication about the stinkin event.
Now all of that money could have been used for better things. Humm...let's think. The money used to fabricate this whole event could have been used to make two dozen or more schedules for the bus drivers to keep in their pouches for the passengers that come up and ask for them and can't realistically get them much any other way. OR, how about this: the money could have been used to help repair older buses and maybe pay some people to deep clean TriMet's bus fleet. Every bus rider who has ever ridden or even been in a TriMet bus knows that those old things desperately need that. But that's right. TriMet will only do things for their pride and joy, the MAX lines, right?
Oh boy. The long list sure goes on and on and on, doesn't it? We all know it does.
TriMet ticketing
TriMet is trying to stop cheaters who ride MAX without paying, but why doesn't TriMet build the system so people can't cheat? Other cities have transit systems that don't allow people to enter the boarding area without a ticket. I have used Washington, D.C.'s Metro system, and it is wonderful. You can't even get to the train without going through a ticketing checkpoint. The trains are clean and comfortable.
TriMet continues to add MAX lines. The ticketing system should be corrected on the new lines and then upgraded on the older lines so that people have to pay to get into the boarding area and onto the train. The problem will never be solved unless a mandatory ticketing process is built into the system -- with ticketing machines that work reliably.
JUDY BELANGER
Gresham
*****
I have repeatedly written to TriMet to suggest that it install validation machines at both ends of all MAX line platforms. The scenario that causes many honest riders to have unvalidated tickets (and, thus, a fine) is when they have to rush onto the train before it pulls out of the station. To require a rider to walk to the opposite end of the platform to get that validation and cause him or her to miss the train is contrary to the human impulse.
By the way, TriMet has never responded to my letters. Poor public relations, wouldn't you say?
HOWARD KRONISH
Beaverton
http://blog.oregonlive.com/myoregon/2011/09/letters_hurricane_irene_cost_j.html
TriMet continues to add MAX lines. The ticketing system should be corrected on the new lines and then upgraded on the older lines so that people have to pay to get into the boarding area and onto the train. The problem will never be solved unless a mandatory ticketing process is built into the system -- with ticketing machines that work reliably.
JUDY BELANGER
Gresham
*****
I have repeatedly written to TriMet to suggest that it install validation machines at both ends of all MAX line platforms. The scenario that causes many honest riders to have unvalidated tickets (and, thus, a fine) is when they have to rush onto the train before it pulls out of the station. To require a rider to walk to the opposite end of the platform to get that validation and cause him or her to miss the train is contrary to the human impulse.
By the way, TriMet has never responded to my letters. Poor public relations, wouldn't you say?
HOWARD KRONISH
Beaverton
http://blog.oregonlive.com/myoregon/2011/09/letters_hurricane_irene_cost_j.html
TriMet bus service hours
TriMet bus service hours rose rapidly in the 1990s, held steady for the early 2000 and began dropping sharply in 2009. The agency cut total bus service hours 13.3 percent from October 2008 toOctober 2010, and has threatened further cuts in late 2011 if it fails to negotiate cheaper benefits for TriMet employees and retired members ofAmalgamated Transit Union Local 757.
According to OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, TriMet's service hours per capita in mid-2011 were the lowest since 1975.
Does TriMet have even ONE of these that THEY provide?
For a growing number of citizens, reasonable access to a decent public toilet is no joke, and the lack of it may actually prevent them from riding transit, or even leaving the house. It's a question of accessibility and needs to be taken seriously.
The petitioners argue that with trips often taking more than 90 minutes to complete, asking passengers to simply “hold it” until they get to their destination is inhumane.
The bottom line for decent public toilets - The Globe and Mail
The bottom line for decent public toilets - The Globe and Mail
Who's paying?
Regarding TriMet's parties to celebrate 25 years of light rail: Isn't this like throwing a party for someone and then sending them the bill?
TriMet is a public fiefdom run by political appointees. Citizens have little say in it, just as we have little say in the Portland Development Commission or the Port of Portland. These are very powerful organizations that report to the power elite of Oregon business and politics, not the people.
TOM SHILLOCK
Northeast Portland
TriMet is a public fiefdom run by political appointees. Citizens have little say in it, just as we have little say in the Portland Development Commission or the Port of Portland. These are very powerful organizations that report to the power elite of Oregon business and politics, not the people.
TOM SHILLOCK
Northeast Portland
Mess Transit
Rather than doing a puff piece celebrating 25 years of light rail, the Zero should have written about the 20+ years of governmental circumvention of the expressed will of the citizens, the unauthorized and disapproved expansion of the light rail lines, and the accompanying cannibalization of bus services by Tri-Met.
Jeld-wen field might get a new name...again.
Will the taxpayers have to pay to change all the directional signs again? One wonders whether the Jeld-Wen signs will come down the same year they went up -- that would probably be a wayward kind of record.
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