"Supervisor being transported; vehicle 'in pretty bad shape'"
http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Why We Need Socialized Health Care
Nurses casually stepped over a patient as he lay dying on a hospital floor.
Peter Thompson, 41, was left in a corridor for ten hours before someone noticed he had passed away.
In a final act of indignity, hospital auxiliaries pulled his lifeless body across the floor in a manner his family described as like ‘dragging a dead animal’.
Security concerns prompt US Navy to close portion of Waterfront Park path
Bike Portland
A portion? Half the westside waterfront area is closed off because of these stinkin ships! I love seeing these ships and all--i think it is really cool--but don't block so much off of the waterfront pathway! It's a big pain in the ass if you ask me. I was down there today and yesterday and navigating everywhere is a complete nightmare.
A portion? Half the westside waterfront area is closed off because of these stinkin ships! I love seeing these ships and all--i think it is really cool--but don't block so much off of the waterfront pathway! It's a big pain in the ass if you ask me. I was down there today and yesterday and navigating everywhere is a complete nightmare.
Why don't we just expand TriMet?
http://www.blueoregon.com/2011/06/bridge-endless-debt/
Sounds like that would be a good idea...that TriMet would never do.
They'd probably have to change their name, too...cause TriMet wouldn't really work then
Sounds like that would be a good idea...that TriMet would never do.
They'd probably have to change their name, too...cause TriMet wouldn't really work then
My favorite video ever about Global Climate Change
"In the end it's not about who's right and who's wrong. It's about making sure we're all still here to disagree."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71cMRGXx9o
Gotta love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71cMRGXx9o
Gotta love it!
Streetcar isn’t the best way to allocate $450 million
Streetcars are not even environmentally friendly. To build the streetcar tracks and infrastructure requires use of a very large number of earth-moving equipment, heavy trucks and other vehicles for an extended time period. Much equipment, rails etc. needs to be transported over a long distance. Bridges and other infrastructures also need to be built. All this results in expenditure of energy for streetcar thousands of times more compared to energy required to build buses. Battery- powered buses, just as battery-powered cars, will be used for most public commuter traffic in the near future. Thus, the extensive bridges and streetcar track construction and use will have much bigger carbon footprint as compared to battery- powered buses. Furthermore, the streetcar track and bridge construction will have drastically adverse effect on large wetland areas, native species and beautiful landscape.
http://portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=130756346065506600
http://portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=130756346065506600
Why West Hayden Island should be left alone
Among the various reasons, a big one stands out: West Hayden Island is a natural floodplain.
Cameras coming to federal courts starting next month
They're going to allow cameras in some federal trial courtrooms in 14 districts around the country beginning on July 18. Electronic media devices have been banned in all federal district courts, most federal appeals courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court for many decades now, but the judiciary is now begrudgingly letting them into the district courts for three years on an experimental basis under tight restrictions.
BoJack
BoJack
Muni operators overwhelmingly reject contract
The tentative agreement - backed by the executive team of the operators union - was shot down on a vote of 994 to 488, according to management and Transport Workers Union Local 250-A.
It was the third time in 1 1/2 years that the union rank and file has snubbed its leadership and management's requests for cost-saving concessions.
It was the third time in 1 1/2 years that the union rank and file has snubbed its leadership and management's requests for cost-saving concessions.
Cameron Johnson gets interviewed by KGW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLPpUxExSAw
Go Cameron! Nice job.
Go Cameron! Nice job.
Fukushima web cam addresses keep changing
And Tepco is now planning to release radioactive water from another reactor complex into the ocean. These guys are just one bad news item after another.
BoJack
BoJack
Al won the "Weird Isn't Working" Contest!
"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal." -- Carl Bernstein (American Journalist, b.1944)America: I give you PORTLAND ORYGON!
They Jeered the Weird | BoJack
TriMet Youth Pass: Creating our transit riders of the future
By retiring its "yellow bus" fleet, PPS provided free TriMet passes to over 2,500 low-income students at a cost of approximately $800,000 per year. In 2005, the Multnomah Youth Commission advocated for the creation of Youth Pass, and both Mayors Potter and Adams supported using the Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC) program to expand the program to over 13,000 PPS high-school students.
Oregon Live
Long live the youth passes!
We are the transit riders of the future, so don't you want to provide us with transit access so we will grow up using it and liking it?
Oregon Live
Long live the youth passes!
We are the transit riders of the future, so don't you want to provide us with transit access so we will grow up using it and liking it?
Ex-Rose City Transit bus, Tri-Met 575, in 1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ex-Rose_City_Transit_bus,_Tri-Met_575,_in_1985.jpgA magnificent old bus, I would say. I just love these old buses!
Click the link. There's more stuff about those buses on the web page.
We need our service back on Line 51!
Tonight, I contacted TriMet, once again about service on the Line 51. This is what I wrote:
I am writing to you tonight about the service on your Line 51-Vista. This line was severely cut back during last September's service cuts--according to Portland AFoot, Line 51's service was cut back by 26% to what it is now. The 51 is in Portland AFoot's list of top 3 bus lines that got service cuts last fall. This has greatly affected everyone up on the 51 line. The 51 has lost a lot of ridership because of the service cuts to it. As you know, the bus line only runs weekday rush hour service since it was cut back. This is not enough--especially during the summertime.
Line 51 provides the only access up to the West Hills area of Council Crest, Vista ave., Patton rd, ect. It is our only option and we don't have enough service on it.
The hours of service we had on it before last fall's service cuts were good enough for us. We simply need a bus line running up that hill all day long instead of weekday rush hour. I would understand the bus line having weekday rush hour service if we had another option getting up there, but the problem is, we don't.
What I am asking you to consider is adding back the hours of operation that Line 51-Vista had before last fall's September 2010 service cuts.
We need the service: It is that simple. TriMet is a public transit agency and public transit agencies are supposed to provide reliable, usable service to the public, so why don't we have that? If you care about your transit bus riders, you will hear me when I say we need this service back. Not everyone can walk up or down the steep hill into downtown: there are many elderly people who rely on TriMet's Line 51 to get downtown and back and we have a right to the service.
I would also like to point out the sort of service the Washington Park/Zoo area has. During the summer you have 2 bus lines running up there. In reality, you only need one line up there: combine the routes of the 63 and Washington Park Shuttle: it is possible to do. The Washington Park Shuttle runs later than the 51 does with little to no ridership at all for most trips. That is absurd. And then you also have it running on weekends? Really? Where I am going with this is here: If you can afford to run 2 bus lines up there that, combined, have less ridership than the 51, even with the terrible service 51 has, then why can't we have better service on the Line 51?
I have more thoughts about this here: http://trimetrider.blogspot.com/2011/05/w.html
I know you have been contacted by other 51 riders about our service on the bus line. On the last run down the hill in the morning we have a few people, including me, who are still infuriated about our terrible service on our ONLY bus line to serve the area of the West Hills that the 51 does. Some of these people are elderly people who depend on this line to get where they need to go--they depend on TriMet.
Please, consider our thoughts. We need service back. All we are asking is to have our pre-September 2010 service back or simply some service running all day and later than only 6:20 (back to how late it ran before our service cuts).
I know Line 51 isn't a really high ridership line--it never will be. Too many people have quit riding the 51 simply because service doesn't run when they need it to which adds to the lowering ridership numbers from last September 2010's service cuts.
Line 51 is quite short and doesn't serve a vast area, so granted, you won't see the ridership numbers you might see on, say, a line 20, but hear me now, the loyal riders of the Line 51-Vista want and need our service back. Hear us and don't let our voices be tossed away in the wind.
Support me and my fellow Line 51-Vista riders by contacting TriMet and asking for service to come back to us! We need it and we need it badly. We cannot just sit back and watch TriMet continue to cut back on bus lines that need it!
Line 51 provides the only access up to the West Hills area of Council Crest, Vista ave., Patton rd, ect. It is our only option and we don't have enough service on it.
The hours of service we had on it before last fall's service cuts were good enough for us. We simply need a bus line running up that hill all day long instead of weekday rush hour. I would understand the bus line having weekday rush hour service if we had another option getting up there, but the problem is, we don't.
What I am asking you to consider is adding back the hours of operation that Line 51-Vista had before last fall's September 2010 service cuts.
We need the service: It is that simple. TriMet is a public transit agency and public transit agencies are supposed to provide reliable, usable service to the public, so why don't we have that? If you care about your transit bus riders, you will hear me when I say we need this service back. Not everyone can walk up or down the steep hill into downtown: there are many elderly people who rely on TriMet's Line 51 to get downtown and back and we have a right to the service.
I would also like to point out the sort of service the Washington Park/Zoo area has. During the summer you have 2 bus lines running up there. In reality, you only need one line up there: combine the routes of the 63 and Washington Park Shuttle: it is possible to do. The Washington Park Shuttle runs later than the 51 does with little to no ridership at all for most trips. That is absurd. And then you also have it running on weekends? Really? Where I am going with this is here: If you can afford to run 2 bus lines up there that, combined, have less ridership than the 51, even with the terrible service 51 has, then why can't we have better service on the Line 51?
I have more thoughts about this here: http://trimetrider.blogspot.com/2011/05/w.html
I know you have been contacted by other 51 riders about our service on the bus line. On the last run down the hill in the morning we have a few people, including me, who are still infuriated about our terrible service on our ONLY bus line to serve the area of the West Hills that the 51 does. Some of these people are elderly people who depend on this line to get where they need to go--they depend on TriMet.
Please, consider our thoughts. We need service back. All we are asking is to have our pre-September 2010 service back or simply some service running all day and later than only 6:20 (back to how late it ran before our service cuts).
I know Line 51 isn't a really high ridership line--it never will be. Too many people have quit riding the 51 simply because service doesn't run when they need it to which adds to the lowering ridership numbers from last September 2010's service cuts.
Line 51 is quite short and doesn't serve a vast area, so granted, you won't see the ridership numbers you might see on, say, a line 20, but hear me now, the loyal riders of the Line 51-Vista want and need our service back. Hear us and don't let our voices be tossed away in the wind.
Support me and my fellow Line 51-Vista riders by contacting TriMet and asking for service to come back to us! We need it and we need it badly. We cannot just sit back and watch TriMet continue to cut back on bus lines that need it!
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