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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Trimet attempting to get in on the Google publicity

Pretty pathetic if you ask me
Portland posted its response to Google’s checklist late Tuesday or early Wednesday, more than a day ahead of schedule. A couple highlights:
On the utility cabinet issue, Portland told Google that “cabinets are allowed,” but that restrictions may exist on siting, visual mitigation and the size of the cabinets.
And TriMet, not formally a part of the city of Portland, made a submission to Google anyway.
“TriMet believes that its existing conduit runs and associated facilities could serve as a plug and play environment for a Google Fiber ring (or backbone) and hut sites,” the transit agency wrote.
TriMet said it has 80 miles of fiber running under MAX light rail lines, plus park-and-ride sites that could be suitable for Google’s fiber huts.
 Google Fiber says all 34 cities still in the running at checklist deadline; TriMet offers to help | OregonLive.com

1 comment:

YoMama said...

And, of course, knowing Trimet, they will pay Google to let Google use " facilities...their"