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| Shelly looking rather haggard |
Sunday, August 31, 2014
TriMet Operations Command Center
Working closely with an extended owner team, PIVOT helped develop designs for an Operations Command Center (OCC) as part of the complete renovations to the Center Street Operations Center. The OCC features a command room with a 31 foot long video wall displaying the full rail system with real time train locations and track controls. The floor is stepped to allow 2 rows of Rail Control Operators to see the overview display. Operating 24 x 7, consoles adapt to the changing ergonomics of 3 shifts per day with power operated height adjustment of work surfaces and monitor racks.
Room acoustics and lighting were carefully designed to support workers need for concentration and clear communications. An advanced touch screen radio system allows communication with all or selected groups of operators, security staff, and City police and fire. There are over 1,100 CCTV cameras in the system which can be viewed on shared displays visible to every one in the center or at individual consoles.
The new facility includes a training center, Emergency Operations Center, data center, and supporting activities. PIVOT Architecture - Work in Progress -TriMet Operations Command Center
Is Trimet really the only transit agency that uses sports events to entrap riders for fares?
I do find it interesting. I don't think it's the cash cow it once was when the big push for code was made 3 years ago. Besides, we can make a MUCH BETTER impression on the visiting team's fans by show casing our great system, not welcoming them to Portland by corralling them thru gates like cattle and citing them $175 because they don't understand our system of fares. IMO, we are missing out on a great PR opportunity. Funny thing is, the people that complain about the gates the most are the ones who HAVE their fares! Need to rethink our approach with some of that transparency and employee involvement that the state was promised.
I wonder what this is all about
This guy on Twitter has been raging against Trimet counsel Shelly Devine. I attempted to get more info from him but all that came back was some sort of gibberish
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Bus vs Skateboard
John Alan Wilson, 39, was reportedly riding his skateboard down a ramp at the station when he turned and collided with a bus on its way to the TriMet garage entrance at the end of the Green Line at approximately 8:10 a.m.
Wilson was taken to a nearby hospital by the American Medical Response ambulance. His condition is currently unknown. The Clackamas County Sherrif's Office first responded to the incident.
The Clackamas County Collision Reconstruction and Forensic Team is investigating.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
-- Eder Campuzano | Twitter: @edercampuzano Gresham man struck by TriMet Bus at Clackamas Town Center Station | OregonLive.com
Friday, August 29, 2014
Bizzare Trimet incident
Trimet chicanery
So what happened to create all this new service?
There has been no victory over the union so they can't say any money came from that.
Sure the tax revenues have been up but they were never that down to begin with (click here for proof).
And when we look at a chart of Trimet tax revenues we see this huge spike in 2012. That spike in tax revenues has never been explained but something stinks about it.
So what happened? I'll tell you my theory.
Today's rail fail
Sounds like max vs truck yellow line
— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) August 29, 2014More reasons to drive
I found no information anywhere as to why this transit center is being destroyed and remodeled.
The best of the Trimet tweets
Light rail-the gift that keeps on giving
Update: @trimet says one person was taken to a hospital after earlier collision between car and MAX train. Yellow line trains delayed.
— KGW News (@KGWNews) August 29, 2014Mcfarlanes wet dream comes true
While McFarlane has undoubtedly been the worst general manager in the history of Trimet one does have to give him some credit for the creation of city/state of light rail in Portlandia. Is all this rail an improvement over the once famous bus service that could take you almost anywhere you wanted to go? That's a matter of opinion.
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| Included on the map is also the closed loop of the Portland Streetcar
Central Loop. Both routes are shown as “future service” and while the
CL line future service is not in doubt, the new map answers no questions
about future Orange & Yellow line service. Where will the Orange
Line end on the north end of the route? Will the Yellow Line extend
further south as some of the new platforms indicate? The new maps provide no answers to these questions and frankly, I wonder why Trimet even went to the trouble of producing new maps that will be obsolete a year from now. portlandtransport.com/archives/2014/08/new-trimet-rail-map.html |
Trimet is like the Koch Brothers
Look at this Trimet Crap, news about NOTHING:
Navigational and aesthetic lighting being added to Tilikum Crossing
Read the nonsense HERE
Thursday, August 28, 2014
I think Joseph Rose made an error
I could be interpreting things wrong, and if not I'm going to assume good faith and that it was a result of him being human, but I believe the Oregonian communing/transportation columnist based a section of a column on a mistake.
Trimet is indeed a BULLY
Washington state representatives, keeping faith with the people, cut off Columbia River Crossing funding in June 2013. The June 29 Columbian headline read: "The Columbia River Crossing is dead." That should have been the end of voter-rejected light rail.
A few months later, Vancouver-led C-Tran betrayed the citizens by throwing a "hail Mary" pass to keep their light rail dreams alive. They conspired with C-Tran CEO Jeff Hamm and attorney Tom Wolfendale, crafting a disastrous contract enslaving C-Tran and Clark County citizens to the absolute control of Portland's insolvent TriMet. To make the "secret" contract impossible to terminate, they made it absolute and irrevocable, adding a $5 million penalty for failing to follow every dictate. They executed the contract before citizens or C-Tran board members saw it. They forfeited eminent domain property rights to unelected Oregon TriMet bureaucrats, giving them possible authority to condemn our private property. C-Tran will be required to dismiss citizen appeals, as breach of contract with TriMet would trigger the $5 million ransom.
Oregon later abandoned its "go it alone" version of the CRC. Yet TriMet insists that they intend to use that irrevocable contract for a future light rail project into Clark County.
Clark County citizens are left exposed. We must terminate that TriMet contract to defuse the threat.
Letter: Held hostage by contract terms | The Columbian
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Trimet workers not afraid to speak up
She has fought as hard as any of us in this war against the Trimet Oligarchs. She has no problem speaking truth to power
Transit executive corruption
Audit blasts UTA, says it gave millions in sweetheart deals | The Salt Lake Tribune
Makes one wonder about the billions of dollars going through Trimet. Nobody really has the slightest idea how all that money gets spent. I would love to see a forensic audit of all the money that has gone through Trimet and where it exactly ended up, in who's pockets. Portland is one party rule and that party has all the levels of government as well as the mainstream media in its pocket so we never get a look into how any of the money actually gets spent and who gets it.
People like Mcfarlane take a look at the robbery being committed at the UTA and thinks he's underpaid. TRANSIT TALENT has performed its own transit salary market survey. Transit Talent is an independent unaligned to any individual transit authority.Trimet executives want to do their own of course because Transit Talent shows that Trimet executives are already above the average. (not including the thieves like UTA's Allegra)
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
No shortage of resentment at Trimet these days
Only people who should participate @TriMet rodeo are ass kissers and managers. Which 1 are you? BOYCOTT #TriMet rodeo pic.twitter.com/7OtqXRd4PX
— Daily Cyclist (@DailyCyclist) August 26, 2014
Problems on the rails (again)
#trimet Portland Streetcar CL Line is disrupted due to a streetcar substation power outage. Shuttle buses serving all CL stops.
— unTriMet alerts (@unTriMetAlerts) August 26, 2014WES isn't running (last morning train was at 9:20) MT @unTriMetAlerts: #trimet WES Commuter Rail service is delayed due to a collision.
— Joseph Rose (@pdxcommute) August 26, 2014Metro/Tri-Met Scheme On
Monday, August 25, 2014
Security's a joke at Trimet
Once again the gate stays open @TriMet. So much for security. What a joke #TriMet. pic.twitter.com/Fi9Xt0dGW7
— Daily Cyclist (@DailyCyclist) August 26, 2014
Dan Christensen claims victory in debate with Harry Sapporta
@trimet just debates Harry Saporta Trimet safety man for 20 minutes he didn't have answer. I win
— Dan Christensen (@Dan_Christensen) August 25, 2014Restoring Faith in Humanity at the MAX Station
"I'm going to go buy a ticket, can you tell me - "
"I need to see your ID"
After meeting the coldest person in the world who slapped me with a $175 fine, and left me to my own devices to find the ticket machine after asking thrice, I headed back upstairs to finish completing my intentions. Just after selecting a ticket from the options given, you, looking no older than 23 with gauged ears, snuck up behind me to hand me a ticket you just bought and never used yourself. I thanked you once and not enough. I really hope this gets to you somehow, someway.
Restoring Faith in Humanity at the MAX Station
Of course they are making a big deal out of this
TriMet tests clearances for MAX Orange Line, pulls train over Tilikum Crossing (video) | OregonLive.com
Construction manager Gary Hopkins said it will be the first time a MAX train will cross Portland's newest bridge.
The train was pulled by a diesel truck that is equipped to travel at a walking pace.
"It all looks good on paper," Hopkins said, "but the clearances are all pretty tight."
The clearance test is expected to last all day.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Trimet misinformation campaign against its work force
Such is the case with Trimet's attempt to strip employee benefits from superior to below average. Never ending propaganda repeated over and over and over by the company and their co-conspirators in the mainstream media successfully turns public opinion against the employees which is turn weakens the employees resolve will lead to victory for the oligarchs in charge. While they shower themselves with raises to their already obscene six figure salaries they strip away the employees salaries by stripping away the benefits. More for them less for the workforce.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Nice little essay on riding Trimet bus 96
Trimet gets more money
These guys get money from everywhere to do all sorts of things that aren't really necessary. But when did gubmint actually fund anything that anybody needs anyway?
TriMet has been awarded a $1.5 million state grant to enhance bicycle
parking and make other improvements at two stations heavily used by
bikers.
The ConnectOregon V will be spent at MAX stations at two
ends of the Robertson Tunnel that connects light rail service between
Portland and Washington County. Robertson Tunnel is the westside MAX
connection named after the late civic leader William Robertson.
CLASS ACTION UPDATE
TRIMET LIES WITH IMPUNITY
They said delays through 8:15 and as u can see at 8:17 things were still F*D up!
I love the Trimet boats!
@LizShatzer when MAX is delayed, please board the nearest boat. #trimet #pdxtransit pic.twitter.com/AZaQUMYliJ
— pdx boats (@pdxboats) August 23, 2014
Watch as the media twists and turns reality on its head
GlobeSherpa is awarded $2.6 million tax payer dollars to reinvent the wheel and its 'good for Portland'. Ya right. But say it over and over and people will believe it, just like the fake 'Bridge of the People'. Sorry we are not all stupid.
Congrats to our friends @globesherpa on the @trimet mobile ticketing contract award announcement. An exciting opportunity for Portland.
— TransitScreen (@TransitScreen) August 22, 2014Thursday, August 21, 2014
Not sure why Trimet is so resistant to alerting customers about delays
If we're hearing it then they are hearing it so whats the holdup? Why can't they provide fast information to their 14000 followers?
Funeral leave-know your rights
Recently a pal of mine has found himself stuck in an argument with Trimet managers over the death of a family member and what that means for him as a Trimet worker.
Yes you get 3 days paid funeral benefits but you are also eligible for paid leave, up to two weeks!
Yes you get 3 days paid funeral benefits but you are also eligible for paid leave, up to two weeks!
Trimet is trying to tell him that he is eligible for two weeks of leave under OFLA but that has to be taken in consecutive days.
An examination of the laws provides no hint that the leave must be consecutive but must be taken within a 60 day period .
Know your rights, Trimet managers do not know the law!
Mcfarlane stays in hiding
Trimet has been a disaster lately and anybody seen the Trimet fearless leader Neil Mcfarlane?
Of course not he stays hidden in the plush Harrison Street offices removed completely from
Trimet operations.
Everyone knows that Neil only cares about capital projects anyway.
Trimet operations.
Everyone knows that Neil only cares about capital projects anyway.
Sorry Neil, If you were a real leader we would hear from you.
There are some really nice riders on the Trimet system
bus rider makes large gourmet dish for bus drivers-earlier http://t.co/uR1fEYKOek
— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) August 22, 2014WHY PEOPLE DON'T RIDE TRIMET
@pdxcommute @runbecause @trimet it's worse inside pic.twitter.com/npn3FNKYQn
— Steven Minor (@stevenminor) August 22, 2014Former Trimet exec makes good
(so no wonder Mcfarlane is unhappy with his salary, although Mcfarlane should really be fired not given a raise)
I wonder how 'competitive' the whole process was?
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| Former Trimet executive Carolyn Young is part of the GlobeSherpa team now |
"The Western Arterial---Makes Sense!"
by Ron Swaren
Gridlock on the Interstate 5 (and I-205) highway through Portland continues at epidemic levels. I was out there on three afternoons last week and noticed it seemed to start earlier now, too. As early as 1 pm for the afternoon rush. A huge portion of the traffic is freight trucks—-and a sure indicator of economic recovery is the movement of freight.
But one overriding economic factor is Washington County growth. With recent announcements by big employers the growth–and the traffic–will continue. This does translate into more tax revenue for the state of Oregon, but with no equivalent of the I-205 highway on the west side of Portland, commuters from SW Washington will continue to be stalled. And freight shipments will also be stalled and wasting time and money.
