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It only took nine days for TriMet to finally put up a Rider Alert at the bus stop in front of my bus stop (and posting a picture of said unusable bus stop to TriMet's twitter account.) Didn't read it, but it probably says "the buses are just going to skip this stop. If you actually want to get on a bus, too fucking bad."
Jason, you admitted that the alert was removed. Admit it. There was no alert there for several days. The stop was closed and unusable with no notice.
You cannot reasonably expect a rider to check a rider alert one, two, three days BEFORE their trip. You cannot reasonably expect a rider to instantly know that their bus stop cannot be used without any notice. But you seem to believe TriMet can do no wrong and it's always the riders' fault.
There WAS no notice.
I have photographic evidence of it.
And you're admitting it.
Get off your damn high horse.
By the way, TriMet finally posted a alert yesterday, AFTER I posted a photo of the bus stop to Twitter. Of course unlike other situations where bus stops were closed there is just a single sign, mounted on the bus stop pole, but not next to the schedule (you know, where people actually LOOK for the bus information), and within the taped-off area of the sidewalk (so they can't easily read it)...AND it requires riders to walk six blocks to the next bus stop. I'm sure you would then find it acceptable for TriMet to...say...close off the Elmonica/170th MAX station with an equal amount of notification to riders? Riders can just walk to 158th and Merlo. There's even the old OE grade they can use so they don't have to walk down Jenkins.
I said that I knew there was, for a period of time, an entry on the Service Alerts and that I didn't know what happened after that. And (on another post) that people and systems aren't perfect and sometimes things break down.
I don't think I've ever said that TriMet is perfect.
Also, it's unfortunate that the freeway off-ramp and the freeway limit potential stop locations in that area.
Overall, TriMet doesn't always get warning when stops aren't going to be usable, and that includes MAX stations. And given that MAX needs platforms to stop at, closures for short-term issues are probably more likely.
As for the path between Elmonica and Merlo, is it legal and accessible?
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It only took nine days for TriMet to finally put up a Rider Alert at the bus stop in front of my bus stop (and posting a picture of said unusable bus stop to TriMet's twitter account.) Didn't read it, but it probably says "the buses are just going to skip this stop. If you actually want to get on a bus, too fucking bad."
As I said, there was an alert for your bus stop before. I don't know what all happened in the interim.
Jason, you admitted that the alert was removed. Admit it. There was no alert there for several days. The stop was closed and unusable with no notice.
You cannot reasonably expect a rider to check a rider alert one, two, three days BEFORE their trip. You cannot reasonably expect a rider to instantly know that their bus stop cannot be used without any notice. But you seem to believe TriMet can do no wrong and it's always the riders' fault.
There WAS no notice.
I have photographic evidence of it.
And you're admitting it.
Get off your damn high horse.
By the way, TriMet finally posted a alert yesterday, AFTER I posted a photo of the bus stop to Twitter. Of course unlike other situations where bus stops were closed there is just a single sign, mounted on the bus stop pole, but not next to the schedule (you know, where people actually LOOK for the bus information), and within the taped-off area of the sidewalk (so they can't easily read it)...AND it requires riders to walk six blocks to the next bus stop. I'm sure you would then find it acceptable for TriMet to...say...close off the Elmonica/170th MAX station with an equal amount of notification to riders? Riders can just walk to 158th and Merlo. There's even the old OE grade they can use so they don't have to walk down Jenkins.
Jason, you admitted that the alert was removed
I said that I knew there was, for a period of time, an entry on the Service Alerts and that I didn't know what happened after that. And (on another post) that people and systems aren't perfect and sometimes things break down.
I don't think I've ever said that TriMet is perfect.
Also, it's unfortunate that the freeway off-ramp and the freeway limit potential stop locations in that area.
Overall, TriMet doesn't always get warning when stops aren't going to be usable, and that includes MAX stations. And given that MAX needs platforms to stop at, closures for short-term issues are probably more likely.
As for the path between Elmonica and Merlo, is it legal and accessible?
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