When a smoker sits next to me on the bus. #CantBreathe #TriMet #pdx
— Gemsong (@gemsong) April 15, 2014
What the fuck is with all the Zionist adverts on #trimet? Am I even allowed on this train?
— BacoNipps™ (@CaballoNegrito) April 15, 2014
Temporary Trimet bus stop right on the corner (@ Goldrush Coffee Bar) http://t.co/MRVoRSzZCT pic.twitter.com/8Dx7baB77Z
— Demetrius Cooper (@demster101) April 15, 2014
One day I’ll ride a @Trimet bus where the driver knows how to brake
— David Celis (@davidcelis) April 15, 2014
@trimet Bus 12 just passed us without stopping. Grand/Couch to downtown. 3 people waiting.
— Marcella Joshlin (@mjoshlin) April 15, 2014
It's hard to keep nice things nice. @trimet #Stop2137 pic.twitter.com/ZmjLAZKsvw
— Shaun Howie (@showiedoit) April 15, 2014
@trimet car 116 between doors 1 & 3. Does this look safe? What does Harry Saporta say about this? pic.twitter.com/s7Tgzf0xdl
— Lane Jensen (@lanejensenpdx) April 15, 2014
#overheard on Trimet: three guys discussing the benefits of smoking vs. sucking the gel off a fentanyl patch (made me think of @silverjews)
— Sarah Wylder (@swylder) April 15, 2014
Part 3: Overheard on @Trimet, girl I'll call LANP: "Did the cops leave?" "Is he in jail?" "Where's he at?"
— Tara (@MediaRemedial) April 15, 2014
Every morning I see this old man carrying around a small oar on Trimet, I'm wondering what he does for a living now.
— Daniel Haefeli (@EvilElf) April 15, 2014
I will happily admit to being geeked about riding the 17 bus from downtown to 126th and Holgate for the very first time. #trimet
— Doctor Jeff (@doctor_jeff) March 20, 2014
@trimet the "bus is turning" alert is annoying. it wakes me up every morning and goes off in front of my house every time a bus goes by.
— cee (@ceeweb) April 15, 2014
Fuck trimet!
— Allison Bayless (@allibayless) April 15, 2014
#trimet transit police blocking bus lane 6th ave at yamhill - tweeter 3 pic.twitter.com/TBvrBwU7Px
— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) April 15, 2014
Thanks again for yet another asshole @trimet train operator. I will greatly miss the next 20 minutes of my life that you forced me to lose.
— Jesse Adams (@tgeek) April 15, 2014
TriMet is all sorts of fuckery today.
— BRZA (@debbiedayglo) April 15, 2014
@trimet stop 7751 monitor error pic.twitter.com/ru1cJxOEK7
— Adam DiCarlo (@adamdicarlo) April 15, 2014
Bus driver just ran over a curb making an easy right turn. Hey, c'mon, we all do that sometimes. #trimet
— Doctor Jeff (@doctor_jeff) April 15, 2014
@trimet the "bus is turning" alert is annoying. it wakes me up every morning and goes off in front of my house every time a bus goes by.
— cee (@ceeweb) April 15, 2014
#TriMet: Is a virtual delay as bad as a real delay? Ponder that while you enjoy the pollen; you've got 14 real minutes to wait.
— Rich Jones (@jonesrich) April 14, 2014
@Schlongdong @CarlemotTwoZero It has to do with TriMet. I'd never count on it when you need it, just to be safe!
— Triss Winterdusk (@TrissWinter) April 17, 2014#facePalm over the naming of the new #TriMet bridge. Really? That is the best we could come up with #Tilikum #TilikumCrossing #TiliKumBridge
— Emma Pelett (@EPelett) April 17, 2014Schizophrenic black version of my dad hitting on me calling me partner #TriMet
— Larkin J Madden (@ljmadden) April 21, 2014I hate riding trimet 😤
— _queen_ (@Kyrah_Unique) April 21, 2014This is what happens when #trimet TRIES to do frequent service. It fails. pic.twitter.com/Vk7aJsBYwa
— Lane Jensen (@lanejensenpdx) April 21, 2014Someone at @TriMet needs to adjust a clock somewhere. #LibrarySW9thAvenue pic.twitter.com/DTOhzk9EJZ
— Jan Anderson (@ubinam_rosarium) April 21, 2014@trimet WB track between Gresham CH & Civic Dr needs to be looked at. So loud it wakes me up. EB track perfectly quiet.
— Jon Bell (@J0nbell) April 21, 2014Pew!! Trimet bus driver confirms brakes were smoking, no fire though. SW 16th and Salmon #liveonk2
— Valerie Hurst (@ValerieHurst) April 21, 2014I don't pay $30 a month for Trimet's rude ass bus drivers to pass me while I'm waiting at a bus stop 😑ðŸ˜
— #islander (@Tairaya_Monae) April 21, 2014Sunday night Trimet, heading SE to NE. 30 minute wait for my transfer. Installing Doge2048.
— Christen McCurdy (@icicle) April 21, 2014I wish Trimet MAX's and buses had wifi
— Matt McConnell (@mbop93) April 21, 2014Whoever designed the new bus stop benches for trimet needs to quit...
— Bones (@DavidMorrow10) April 21, 2014Whale honored for 3 humanoids disposed of? Robo has slain 40+, 4 times at 2 venues. serial killer whale trimet named its new bridge after
— Robo Erectus (@RoboErectusBand) April 20, 2014Are there no busses today? @trimet? Where's the 71?
— B (@BBrkdwn) April 20, 2014@trimet can someone explain how this bench works? Seems I'm not the only one confounded by it pic.twitter.com/vcLaiMkXA5
— Mary (@maryacunningham) April 20, 2014A Stoner on #trimet just offered me some of their chicken strips. Keep it classy #pdx @MommyofBellaRae reminds me of yr nail clipping story
— Hello Anne Marie (@h31104nn3m4r13) April 20, 2014Trimet is seriously so fuckin slow 90% of the time
— Robert Keomek (@r_keomek) April 20, 2014Instead of "horrible & purposefully spiteful in re: to people's schedules" I will just say @trimet is "highly inconsistent." #Positivity
— Earl Dizon (@ea12l) April 20, 2014Just for fun, @trimet , you should try shorter headways on your Max lines. So people could, you know, depend on it.
— Paul (@__P__J) April 20, 2014@AlexBrionezz I fucking hate @trimet So unreliable.
— Emilio (@brioe162) April 20, 2014Fuck you #trimet None of your schedules are accurate and yet you still dare to charge us $5 per day. Fuck you! And fuck you some more!
— Emilio (@brioe162) April 20, 2014@TelemachusRome The theme song for #Trimet should be "Another One Rides The Bus" by Weird Al Yankovic @alyankovic
— alanpdx (@alanpdx) April 20, 2014@trimet Number 6 bus just blew through a red light at Interstate and Lombard.
— Anna R. Snyder (@Galumbits) April 20, 2014
8 comments:
Apparently Lane hasn't learned anything from his "kum-by-yaa" moments with TM and the Transit Police.
Sure, right now he's making "seemingly innocent" comments about safety (BTW, the picture he took shows a train lifting point; so its not pretty looking. What's not safe? The rust?) and bus times/schedules, but that's basically where he started at before when he eventually ended up in the mess he got himself into.
Thought he said he'd washed his hands of TM. Apparently its too much an addiction for him.
Maybe this time they'll throw away the key.
Funny. These negative comments about Lane always seem to come across with a not-so-hidden pro-TriMet agenda.
It is not illegal for government agencies to conduct pr campaigns on blogs, social media and other online sites (aka Oregonian comments sections) via hired guns.
It's not about Lane, it's about where is the next Lane going to come from and when will it happen. Who will challenge TriMet on their lies and generate attention and results that matter?
All the closet TriMet lovers (who don't ride anyway) can go to hell.
I'm the commenter from above. I'm not a "closet TriMet lover" as you put it. I'm also not a TriMet hired gun. The main reason I remain anonymous is because, while I do love working for TriMet I am disgusted in what has become of it but still need to keep my job to pay my bills.
Al and I have actually had many discussions in the past and we surprisingly agree more than we dont. When we don't, I respect that- he's just a bit more "passionate" about his disagreement. At the end of the day it doesn't make much matter who agrees with who.
Here's the big difference, and even Al has said it in not so many words: My beef is not with Lane's passion or drive. Hell, if only more people had it. My beef is with his methods and the direction.
Al, with all the stuff he stirred up, the controversy he created...he never went so far as to get himself in the kind of trouble as Lane got himself into. Hell, Al even had Peggy Hansen and Steve Banta happy to talk to him and shake his hand afterwards! Al has passion but he keeps it in check just enough...just enough to not alienate himself from mgmt, he gets along with most operators, he thinks all white shirts are evil (which, I'm sorry Al that is simply not true..especially if you truly knew sometimes...) but Al has succeeded in beating up management and the b.s. without getting himself voted off the island. OK, I will acknowledge he pretty much had to retire or it would soon end up he might end up losing that option...but he's NOT the loose cannon Lane is.
If Lane grew up a bit, had not started out by deamonizing all of the drivers and devoting his life to nitpicking everything they did- getting up in their faces with his camera phone in their personal space demanding he be tended too...THEN all of a sudden do a 180 and say drivers are OK now...oops! My bad! Sorry, I meant to pick on management! Are you with me! Then using many of the same tactics there that he had used on the operators...he was passionate-no doubt, no argument. But he was a loose cannon who didn't heed warnings and got his peepee slapped for it, still didn't listen and nearly got it chopped off. Now, if you look back to how he started originally, he is doing the same stuff that eventually, after some time, got his ass in a wringer.
I don't have ANY problems with folks wanting to take on TriMet for their misgivings. Just be sure you take on the right people-the managers and executives, NOT the worker bees and front line supervisors- they all have to do the job they are told to do. They don't get to decide otherwise and they don't make policy. Al says that they can just refuse to do it- no Al, they can't or they lose the income to feed their families. That's like you having a maintenance foreman for your property who tells you, the owner, to f off because he's gonna do the job the way he wants. He won't stay employed long.
So, kiss my ass about my so called Pro TriMet agenda. You apparently just ain't gettin it. And I sent in the closet either Bo Bo- I LOVE TRIMET (at least what it WAS).
Ready now for your next line of crap....
Oh, and you didn't answer the two questions either-
1) what is unsafe about the picture Lane took of the Train lifting point? Its in need of some pain and unless you're planning to fun your hands over it when the train is coming in or out of the platform (which then you deserve the rust encrusted scrapes for your ignorance)
2) what happened to Lane saying he was not going to write about or get involved with TriMet anymore? He was swearing off them. He was so devastated by his potential jail time he wasn't taking any more chances...
That lasted what, 10 minutes?
Damn auto spell check! Between that and typing fast into my phone because of the irritation of the b.s. I'm responding to, I missed a few typos, my apologies.
*I'm not in the closest, I love TriMet for what it once was.
*the lifting point is in need of some paint and unless your planning to run your hands over it...
(Think that's it. Sorry. Will try to slow down.)
How did we get back on the topic of Lane Jensen? Just because of that dumb tweet?
Look, Lane has extremely poor taste and finds all sorts of things funny that most people don't find funny.
Ya he's over the top, and that is exactly why he was so good.
I loved watching Lane Jensen antics for as long as they lasted because of his IN YOUR FACE style.
I agree that you need to know when to stop pushing because once you have developed enemies those enemies will come at you with everything they have.
Lane made all kinds of mistakes in doing what he was doing.
Even with all that he exposed the true evil that can come out of Trimet mgmt because in the end They manufactured a false criminal case against him.
I know plenty of people would have loved to see Lane rot in jail, but that was simply WRONG and EVIL and I am glad I was able to play a part in preventing that from happening to him.
As bad as Lane was, and I agree he was pretty out there, Trimet management was worse.
The difference is that Trimet management can get away with criminal acts and disguise them as 'standard operating procedures'.
Their Anon, for a reason.
HB
See, I agreed with everything Al just said. No then, if that's possible, how come world peace is so damned hard? Lol.
Rock on Al.
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