Thursday, July 14, 2011
WHY IS IT SUCH A BIG DEAL TO DISINFECT BUSES ONCE IN AWHILE, LIKE AT LEAST MONTHLY?
Spray the seats and mop the floors with something like THIS!
The miracle of life (the tunnel under OHSU idea)
Behold. This is the definitive "birth of a project" Oregonian article of all time. If Portland lasts 1,000 years, you will not see it done any better. This is like looking back at the primordial ooze of bureaucracy and witnessing the beginnings of life. The article doesn't just report on something -- it actually serves as an incubator, or a petri dish, while the new life form begins to grow.
REST IN PEACE MISTY PLITZ SHERMEISTER
NO RDO WORK WEEK?
It was proposed at the last union meeting that no drivers should work RDO for one week as a protest to TRIMET against unfair labor practices!
Portland Mode Share
In response to Al's query of why Portland is not in the top 15 metro areas that use cars the least, here are Portland's statistics:
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton Metro
Car: 81.5% (9.9% carpooled)
Non-Car: 18.5%
Transit: 6.1%
Bike: 2.1%
Walk: 3.2%
Other: 7.1% (6.1% worked from home)
This puts Portland barely out of the top 15 (#15 was 19.2% non-car), but look at the area this includes:
If we look at just Portland, here's how the statistics change:
Portland
Car: 70.1% (8.5% carpool)
Non-Car: 29.9%
Transit: 11.5%
Walk: 5.6%
Bike: 5.8%
Other: 6.9% (5.9% worked from home)
That would put us at #2. I think the honest answer is somewhere in-between.
It would be interesting to see what these stats look like if you limited the geographic area to just the major cities (Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Vancouver, Gresham, Milwaukie, Oregon City, etc).
Also, I would prefer to see the ratings include the carpoolers as non-car (i.e. instead of Car/Non-Car it should be SOV/Non-SOV).
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton Metro
Car: 81.5% (9.9% carpooled)
Non-Car: 18.5%
Transit: 6.1%
Bike: 2.1%
Walk: 3.2%
Other: 7.1% (6.1% worked from home)
This puts Portland barely out of the top 15 (#15 was 19.2% non-car), but look at the area this includes:
If we look at just Portland, here's how the statistics change:
Portland
Car: 70.1% (8.5% carpool)
Non-Car: 29.9%
Transit: 11.5%
Walk: 5.6%
Bike: 5.8%
Other: 6.9% (5.9% worked from home)
That would put us at #2. I think the honest answer is somewhere in-between.
It would be interesting to see what these stats look like if you limited the geographic area to just the major cities (Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Vancouver, Gresham, Milwaukie, Oregon City, etc).
Also, I would prefer to see the ratings include the carpoolers as non-car (i.e. instead of Car/Non-Car it should be SOV/Non-SOV).
ABOUT THE DIRTY BUSES
I will bet you that there are colonies of MOLD growing in the venting/heating systems.
How do I know that?
Cause every time I turn on the heaters I GAG!
The new buses you can't even open the windows, a wonderful idea to share everybody's virus's and bacterias.
The Geography of How We Get to Work
Portland is conspicuously absent from this list!
Finally, and perhaps most interesting, the way we get to work is associated with the kinds of work we do. The share of workers in the creative class--scientists, engineers, techies, innovators, and researchers, as well as artists, designers, writers, musicians and professionals in healthcare, business and finance, the legal sector, and education--is positively associated with the percentages of people who take public transit or walk or bike to work. In fact this creative class variable was the largest of all.http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/06/the-geography-of-how-we-get-to-work/240258/?CFID=3187&CFTOKEN=21470599
BUSES FILTHY+ FULL OF BACTERIA
Preliminary results show that oxacillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus could be among the 120 bacteria colonies found on trains and buses. Commonly known as MRSA, the bug is notorious for rejecting antibiotics, eating flesh and causing pneumonia.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/07/riding_trimet_plenty_of_bugs_c.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/07/riding_trimet_plenty_of_bugs_c.html
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