Saturday, January 28, 2012
OHSU tram tour
The OSHU tram turned 5 yesterday, so today they had a birthday party for it in the Center for Health & Healing which is OHSU's South Waterfront location & the bottom terminus for the tram. Inside was tram artwork & photography, a couple of tram operators with some of the tools & tram parts & segments of the cables to see up close, and also cupcakes. Every half hour or so they ran tours of the engine room and control room.
More pictures....
More pictures....
Remember this?
This was a microphone that was plugged into the main bus speaker so you could call stops without losing your teeth. It turned out to be another failure.
STEVE CLARK REPORTS ON THE ARBITRATION
Hearing will be Mid March, decision mid April, but the contract expires THIS COMING NOVEMBER!
TRANSPARENT TRIMET (hehe)?
Well I guess they do have transparency when it comes to their bus GPS data. Not that that actually means much in terms of what the word TRANSPARENCY is supposed to mean. They are the leader in this sort of technology, but the lagger in the technology that helps secure stations and pay/enforce fares. Which is more important? I say the latter.
Transit transparency: Open data in action ~ Policy by the Numbers
Transit transparency: Open data in action ~ Policy by the Numbers
IS MACFARLANE ABOUT TO USE THE TWINKEE DEFENSE?
Hostess Brands asks to shed union obligations
Associated Press
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Updated yesterday at 8:04 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Hostess Brands Inc., the bankrupt maker of Wonder
Bread and Twinkies, has asked a judge to slash some of its commitments
to union employees, saying it's the only way it can emerge from
bankruptcy as a viable company.
The Teamsters union issued a swift rebuke on Thursday, saying
Hostess was trying to "bully" its way out of obligations to its
employees.
Hostess filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this month, hobbled
by Americans' preference for healthier snacks, and stiff competition
from other sweets makers like Entenmann's. The announcement came just
three years after Hostess emerged from a previous bankruptcy
restructuring.
Unions represent more than three-quarters of Hostess' 19,000 employees, the company said.
Hostess is based in Irving, Texas.
I GOT MY OWN PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN!
My new blog title "Trimet Executives have the ethics of a Squid" is circulating very well around the net.
You see it numerous times in numerous places:
IF PEOPLE SEE IT OVER AND OVER THEY JUST MIGHT START REPEATING IT THEMSELVES!
You see it numerous times in numerous places:
JACK GETS IT
Tri-Met collapsing under its own train madness
Making it much more expensive
for honest passengers to ride, all the while cutting bus service, is
just going to accelerate the death spiral. Goldschmidt crony Fred
Hansen parachuted out just before the plunge became obvious. Why his
hapless successor took the gig is anybody's guess.
Tri-Met's allowed itself to be Blumenauered into oblivion. You'll have to ride a bike, because there won't be a bus, and the streets will be pretty much blocked to cars.
And now we're up to a five buck minimum entry fee every time we go downtown? The phrase "ghost town" comes immediately to mind.
Tri-Met's allowed itself to be Blumenauered into oblivion. You'll have to ride a bike, because there won't be a bus, and the streets will be pretty much blocked to cars.
And now we're up to a five buck minimum entry fee every time we go downtown? The phrase "ghost town" comes immediately to mind.
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