The new Portland Streetcar fare instrument will soon be seen everywhere come the 22nd when it officially starts service on their expansion project. Provided is a pic of the fare instrument. Is this legal? Is Trimet and Portland Streetcar outsourcing the Fare Department and explains why we don't get any new apprentices even though real soon, we will be seeing four or five of our Fare/Comm Techs retiring soon. Any thoughts on this matter?
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It's difficult to be patient, Al, with your limited comprehension abilities. The Streetcar is owned by the City of Portland and is NOT TriMet. The city is able to hire it's own employees to do City work. Fare enforcement is an example of city work.
What does that have to do with privatizing the fares?
And why the FK is the city selling Trimet tickets?
Trimet does not sell Streetcar tickets!
Frankly TriMet should have ZERO involvement with the Streetcar. Portland decided it wanted to go its own way with the Streetcar - the City should be handling it without TriMet.
TriMet provides the operators, provides the track and signal maintenance, provides some vehicle maintenance - all under contract. Normally TriMet would be paid for that, but instead TriMet then pays the City close to $10 million - on top of the unreimbursed contract involvement. Meanwhile, TriMet can't even fund its own services (bus service) because it's too intertwined with the non-TriMet Streetcar.
TriMet fares are sold on the Portland Streetcar because there is a high potential that someone will want to ride a TriMet service after they ride the streetcar.
And, Erik, as I've pointed out here multiple times before, because of the streetcar service, TriMet has not had to increase service in NW Portland and now has been able to reduce it, and streetcar allows all TriMet valid fare holders to ride at no additional charge (for "free").
Also, I believe you may have the accounting wrong--that the maintenance is not in addition to the $10 million subsidy. Not to mention that the increase in the payroll tax rate was earmarked for things like the streetcar.
I fail to see how adding a bus on Lovejoy (or keeping what we had) would even break a million dollars adding frequent service onto a bus along Lovejoy, 10th/11th and Burnside to the mall. Hell you could extend it through to Montgomery Park and down the rest of the streetcar route and surely not break a million.
The fact of the matter is that the city and trimet collude in many ways to offer the best of Trimet to Portland while dumping shit on the rest of the service area.
And that's a FACT JACK!
Again, please try to read and understand. The City of Portland sells tickets to it's passengers that are honored by TriMet. They DO NOT sell "TriMet tickets" The City of Portland honors tickets from TriMet. TriMet does NOT sell Streetcar tickets. And also again, the City of Portland owns the Streetcars and the entire infrastructure. There is no contractual with TriMet
STREET CAR IS SELLING TRIMET ALL ZONE TICKETS.
THEY ARE VENDING TRIMET TICKETS AT THE SAME TIME COMPETING FOR CUSTOMERS FROM TRIMET.
THE FARES ARE OUTSOURCED BY THE CITY.
UNION BUSTING...END OF DISCUSSION.
AT LEAST ADMIT IT FOR CHRIST SAKES!
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