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TriMet releases close-call videos as part of WES safety campaign | TriMet Media
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Of course. Anything for WES.
I have Tweeted specific dates, times, vehicle numbers and train numbers of near misses on the bus system. Are those publicized? Of course not.
There are, what, three WES trains a day, rush hours only, on a protected ROW. Those trains, combined, serve 1,600 or so riders (800 round-trips).
Every day, seven days a week, there are up to over 600 buses, operating in traffic with cars. Over 175,000 riders on average are on a TriMet bus at some point during the day, throughout the day.
We all know that a 40,000 pound bus can kill. It has.
The only difference is that when WES (or MAX), rarely is the Engineer blamed. When it's a bus, there's always a way to blame the Operator, even when they had no fault. (Such as the example when the 52 bus hit the bicyclist at Murray & Farmington, when the bicyclist rode off of a mixed-use path and onto the road in violation of a traffic signal.) But in reality, near misses happen each and every single day on the bus system, and TriMet has virtually NO safety mission for the bus system. Never mind that we all pay the same fares; that the Director of Safety is a system-wide position, not a WES position or a rail position...
Tribune July 12, A5
In reading te article; Fetsch's statement is completley false. Video (bus) don't get "recorded over."
Suspect the bus probably had an inoperable video function when it pulled out of the garage for service.
No video, probably due to TriMet's poor maintenance in fleet management. Outcome of this investiagtion? This operator is held harmless from the allegations. Back to work.
Only in the last video is the train traveling anywhere close to the claimed "60 MPH"--the others are all right next to station stops. But WES can't stop or swerve like a bus can.
three WES trains a day, rush hours only
The schedule shows a little different ("trains" is used to refer to trips, not physical vehicles, as it doesn't matter how many vehicles are actually used).
(800 round-trips)
Not necessarily. I ride WES one way when I go to or from Salem. And trips on any mode are generally counted one-way.
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