Lane Jensen, who excels at this type of research answers that question. He has broken down by time and route how many buses are on a particular line and what % of the total fleet that represents.
CLICK HERE too see the spreadsheet breakdown or HERE to see the entire post at PORTLAND TRANSIT LANE
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Great post, Lane. But did you count buses that are deadheading as well, say, from Sherwood back to downtown Portland on the 94 that do not turn into a 12? Or buses that have to return to Marquam Hill?
Also there has to be consideration that a certain number of buses are under repair and are unavailable...
That said - TriMet frequently cites that the number of spare vehicles it can roster is strictly regulated by FTA guideline (basically TriMet cannot overload on vehicles just because the federal money is there...not that TriMet takes it, we all know TriMet passes up federal bus replacement funding for unknown reasons!)... You've done some great research, keep it coming!
Erik,
I kept the deadheads out of this list due to the fact they are not in service.
Well this can be atributed to the fact that they had reduced service and their HOS policy they put in place which restricts operators from filling those extra service shifts, that maybe 1hour or 2hours to fill in where needed. But as always this is the unions fault, although the union doesn't do the bugets, set the schedules or set policies that stress the public in any way.
HB
The amount of extra service isn't limited by the number of vehicles, it's limited by the amount of money TriMet wants to spend on the operators.
If you guess too high, then you end up paying extra board operators to sit around. If you guess too low, then you end up with service holes.
This was never a problem, before the changes, but sure was after the changes and it was never about pay, it was about perception.
HB
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