Lane made every single news station today!
Monday, January 14, 2013
DID YOU KNOW FARES HAVE INCREASED 700%
That's a 700% increase in transit fares.
The inflation rate since 1970 is 193% Here for inflation rate
Trimet has become very expensive in terms of real dollars
Latest "seen and heard on Trimet"
But not seen on TRIMET'S HOW WE ROLL BLOG!
| Gene Merrill
Advantage: bus. This morning's
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TRIMET SCANNER TWEETS HERE!
CLASSIC DISPATCH
How can you blame Joe Rose? He's a reporter reporting an incident. Blame the driver who acted like an ass in front of a visible camera!
DRIVER BLAMES JOE ROSE FOR DISRESPECTFUL WORKPLACE: radio.rosecitytransit.org/newscanner/201… @pdxcommute
— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) January 15, 2013
MEDIA FRENZY IN PROGRESS
Remember, the dogs are the Media, the Master is TRIMET, and the Meat is Trimet bus drivers!
CLASSIC TWEETS
Bruce Warner probably also blames the disappearing honeybee population on #trimet benefits #seriouslyfindanewexcuse
— MAX FAQs (@maxfaqs) January 15, 2013
TRIMET BLOGGERS KNOW BRUCE WARNER IS A HACK
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| Mcfarlane stooge Bruce Warner |
Just got a look at @trimet board prez B. Warner's Tues. @orgeonian op-ed. He blames "unsustainable health care benefits" 4 scheduling probs.
— Joseph Rose (@pdxcommute) January 14, 2013
OH BOY-THAT DUMBASS BUS DRIVER IS IN THE SHIT NOW
#TriMet driver caught on camera running two stop signs - bit.ly/W47n4R
— KGW News (@KGWNews) January 14, 2013
LANE JENSEN ON TV NEWS NOW?
ATU 757 UPDATE OF DRIVER FATIGUE
Update on Operator Fatigue Policy Negotiations Between TriMet and Union
The
Union sent general manager Neil McFarlane a proposal for an interim
hours of service policy intended to prevent bus operator fatigue. It is
meant to cover the time between now and when the parties start
bargaining their contract and reach a successful conclusion.
On
Thursday, January 10, 2012 Randy Stedman, TriMet Executive Director of
Labor Relations sent a counter proposal to which the Union responded
today.
The
Union’s response focuses on the primary difference between the parties’
two proposals. The Union has proposed that a bus operator work day span
no more than 12 hours unless there is an emergency. TriMet’s proposal
is that operators can be scheduled to work 14 hours a day. The transit
workers’ union president, Bruce Hansen, says a 14-hour workday is too
long. “No human being, especially one transporting passengers through
city traffic, can safely operate a bus for over a 14-hour long work day,
day after day.” He notes that even the 12-hour work day span proposed
by the Union is too much but says “It’s an effort to meet TriMet
management half-way.”
The
Union’s proposal cites recent PSU studies which emphasize that the span
of the workday is the culprit when it comes to unsafe driving. In
summary, the studies found that a long workday span leads to stress and
fatigue which leads to absenteeism which leads to TriMet extra board
operators working too much overtime. The study also notes that the
chance of collision begins increasing in the 11th hour.
Referencing
the recent newspaper articles on extra board operator fatigue, Hansen
said, “The problem of excess hours worked by extra board operators would
not exist but for the extraordinarily long days worked by the hundreds
of other operators driving splits. Those long work days are unsafe for
the public and passengers. They are also unhealthy for the operators so
they are absent more.”
The
Union’s original proposal was previously distributed. TriMet’s
counterproposal and the Union’s response are attached. The PSU studies
are available by clicking on, or by cutting and pasting the following
link into your browser window:
Attached Documents: http://www.atu757.org/
Dispatchers watching Lane Jensen's movie on duty?
Listen carefully to THIS audio clip. You can hear the start of Lane's movie in the background!
TriMet bus driver blows stop signs;
After spending the last week answering questions about sleepy operators, runaway driver overtime and shady shenanigans with public records, TriMet needs a YouTube video of a bus blowing stops signs like the world needs another Taylor Swift breakup song.
But we had a hard time brushing this footage captured by local nail-in-the-tire-of-local-transit blogger Lane Jensen.
Without slowing, a bus blows not one but two stop signs at the Gresham Transit Center
Joe Rose story is HERE!
But we had a hard time brushing this footage captured by local nail-in-the-tire-of-local-transit blogger Lane Jensen.
Without slowing, a bus blows not one but two stop signs at the Gresham Transit Center
Joe Rose story is HERE!
TRIMET QUOTE OF THE WEEK
| Joe Rose comes up with artistic description of Lane |
Is that a great line or what?
| Lane Jensen at Trimet board meeting |
CLASSIC TWEETS
Contrast between a real transit system and #trimet: wait 15m at 8am for a packed two-car MAX in Portland or wait 2m for 10car BART at 645am.
— Lillian Karabaic (@anomalily) January 14, 2013
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