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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

3 hours on the Trimet system

Chris Day asked me to check out the happenings on four train 3. So I did that today. Here is my report summarized video below.
4 train 3 is the first of three buses spaced about 7 minutes apart into downtown Portland coming from St Johns going to Gresham. This particular train is the one that gets clobbered. Having worked at Trimet for 15 years I am aware of the way things roll there. There is the 'bad train', the one that picks up everyone then the next two buses behind it run virtually empty. That's what's going on with 4 train 3. Not a goddamn thing the driver can do about it. Somebody has to eat the shit, in this case its four train three. This is the first three parts, more to follow

3 HOURS ON THE TRIMET SYSTEM PART 1 from al m on Vimeo.

3 HOURS ON THE TRIMET SYSTEM PART 2 from al m on Vimeo.

3 HOURS ON THE TRIMET SYSTEM PART 3 from al m on Vimeo.

1 comment:

Jason McHuff said...

They moved the inbound stop so it wouldn't be in front of the crosswalk, and don't want them to block the view of it or force buses to pass using the bike lane