TriMet testing grassy 'eco-track' on Portland-Milwaukie MAX line (video) | OregonLive.com
""" said John Fall, TriMet's capital projects communications manager"""
~~~>John Fall huh? Yet another overpaid communications person?
"""TriMet said the eco-track pilot project along Lincoln Street is part of its ongoing push to make transit more sustainable."""
~~~>How is having grass on the trackway going to make transit more sustainable?
"""We're talking only 200 feet of on the Portland-Milwaukie MAX line's 7.3 miles,""
~~~>Oh for crying out loud, and that warrants this kind of media attention?
""" Altstadt didn't have a dollar figure, but said the eco-track costs more to build than a standard length of track. "But it wasn't extravagant," she said, "or we wouldn't be doing it."""
~~~>Oh my lord it just gets funnier and funnier
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Transit Rider PDX
Transit Rider PDX
"""Sometimes the bus bridge is effective, such as when the person walked in front of the MAX train at Goose Hollow on Tuesday night."""
~~~>Saw more than a few tweets from riders who do not agree with you there.
"""This really ticks people off, because it makes it look like TriMet cares more about keeping the MAX system running than providing bus service."""
~~>Obviously that's true or they wouldn't be pulling buses of active routes!
""" But one of the public communications officers told me once that there is a great absenteeism problem with bus operators, making it impossible to pull enough people from the yard."""
~~~>Ridiculous typical Trimet modus operandi , blame it on the drivers. True moral is low, who wants to come to work for an organization that publicly says you are over compensated. I wouldn't come through for them if I worked there. Screw them.
"""This means having at least 3-4 buses and operators on call at all times to make this possible. (I don't want to hear any "we don't have the resources right now" stuff"""
~~~~>Absolutely. Trimet hires bureaucrat after bureaucrat after bureaucrat. They have lost all sense of priority and their goals are no longer consistent with running transit. There is absolutely no money crisis there its totally made up. They are a capital projects agency and they exist to enrich its executive class and to add to that classes empire. It's quiet disgraceful and even more disgraceful is that they continually get away with this.
There is one other thing you forgot to mention Patrick. Trimet is over extended. They are too big and too unwieldy. They have been unable to perfect their current operation yet they continue to expand. They are totally unaccountable for anything ever so what do you expect from them? There is no incentive to 'do the right thing', even if their latest slogan says that.
"""Sometimes the bus bridge is effective, such as when the person walked in front of the MAX train at Goose Hollow on Tuesday night."""
~~~>Saw more than a few tweets from riders who do not agree with you there.
"""This really ticks people off, because it makes it look like TriMet cares more about keeping the MAX system running than providing bus service."""
~~>Obviously that's true or they wouldn't be pulling buses of active routes!
""" But one of the public communications officers told me once that there is a great absenteeism problem with bus operators, making it impossible to pull enough people from the yard."""
~~~>Ridiculous typical Trimet modus operandi , blame it on the drivers. True moral is low, who wants to come to work for an organization that publicly says you are over compensated. I wouldn't come through for them if I worked there. Screw them.
"""This means having at least 3-4 buses and operators on call at all times to make this possible. (I don't want to hear any "we don't have the resources right now" stuff"""
~~~~>Absolutely. Trimet hires bureaucrat after bureaucrat after bureaucrat. They have lost all sense of priority and their goals are no longer consistent with running transit. There is absolutely no money crisis there its totally made up. They are a capital projects agency and they exist to enrich its executive class and to add to that classes empire. It's quiet disgraceful and even more disgraceful is that they continually get away with this.
There is one other thing you forgot to mention Patrick. Trimet is over extended. They are too big and too unwieldy. They have been unable to perfect their current operation yet they continue to expand. They are totally unaccountable for anything ever so what do you expect from them? There is no incentive to 'do the right thing', even if their latest slogan says that.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
TriMet quietly deals with quarantined whooping cough bus at Southeast Portland garage | OregonLive.com
TriMet quietly deals with quarantined whooping cough bus at Southeast Portland garage | OregonLive.com
Must have been quite a sight, from the Trimet statement:
"""People with whooping cough may have coughing spells in which they can’t catch their breath between coughs. As they catch their breath at the end of a coughing spell, they may loudly gasp (“whoop”).''''
I can imagine the shock the riders must have experienced as the driver "whooped" away then "gasped" for air. Wow...
Must have been quite a sight, from the Trimet statement:
"""People with whooping cough may have coughing spells in which they can’t catch their breath between coughs. As they catch their breath at the end of a coughing spell, they may loudly gasp (“whoop”).''''
I can imagine the shock the riders must have experienced as the driver "whooped" away then "gasped" for air. Wow...
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