I've seen this happen way to often for it to be coincidence

I think they actually monitor our Trimet Scanner twitter feed .

Uh @trimet, don't want to tell u your business but maybe you should put out a max delay tweet pic.twitter.com/zfRXnmdQhC

— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) November 28, 2015

All MAX lines are delayed up to 20 minutes due to tree lighting event in Downtown Portland.

— TriMet (@trimet) November 28, 2015