Comments from BIKE PORTLAND
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
MASSIVE Trimet fail for Portland Bicyclists
Comments from BIKE PORTLAND
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Trimet now has cops guarding against bicyclists
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| Gotta keep an eye on those lawless bicyclists |
Monday, September 28, 2015
Another Trimet bus driver assaulted
TRIMET BUS DRIVER ASSAULTED
http://t.co/TFk4yBW606
— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) September 28, 2015Sunday, September 27, 2015
Directly off Trimet's own website
@atu757 Bruce Hansen gave away the store, this is from #trimet's own web site-Bruce was thrown out because of this pic.twitter.com/kjHBwtDQ01— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 27, 2015
Fascinating piece of Trimet history here
1984 Trimet
You gotta check out this #trimet bus from 1984 pic.twitter.com/pL0CiMARZ3
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 27, 2015
Come ride Portland's friendly transportation system
#trimet is very safe
That is why we use flack jacketed police with assault weapons on our system pic.twitter.com/vcOx3ZmnNg
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 27, 2015Saturday, September 26, 2015
Classic Trimet Tweets
Train life in #Portland, OR. I still love it! #pdx #pdxnow @trimetdriver pic.twitter.com/v8UCd0FOxb
— Scott Ford (@ScottFordTVGuy) September 26, 2015Friday, September 25, 2015
Trimet gets an immediate $4.3 million cash
Due to the sock puppets recent raise in the payroll tax Trimet executives will be getting an additional $4.3m next year and more every year after that (up to $43m) to play with as they see fit. As you know its the payroll tax that Trimet executives have the total flexibility to use as they want. Now they have stated that this money will go to dedicated new and expanded service.
So what should we expect if these people in control are being truthful?
Mcfarlane trying to dig up money everywhere to keep the light rail mafia in business
So he makes a 'speech' at the city club and the Trimet media stooges attempt to create more phony news out of this by making the claim that he is 'resurrecting the debate'.
Its unbelievable how they manufacture news in the Portland area. We all know how addicted Trimet is too capital projects and this is just one more attempt to try to find more money to keep the whole mafia going.
First they have all this orange line hype, then they raise the payroll taxes, and now they are trying to drum up even more money to keep that monster alive.
First they have all this orange line hype, then they raise the payroll taxes, and now they are trying to drum up even more money to keep that monster alive.
Why would anybody in Portland care about a bridge to Vancouver? Portlander's don't commute to Washington, its the Vancouverites that commute to Portland. They're the ones that should be bringing this up, not Mcfarlane.
Mcfarlane only has one reason to keep pushing this!
MONEY!
Read the Trimet stooge Tribune HERE (make sure to read the comments)
Good post at MAX RED LINE on this topic
MBTA union workers under attack
Transit workers are a very easy target because the vast majority of the public doesn't use mass transit and couldn't care less if it disappeared all together. It's not a respected job to be a union transit worker in this country and the transit executive class continues degrading the position as time goes on.
Boston is under serious 'privatization' threat right now. And when you hear those words it means only one thing. Lower wages and benefits for the people that do the work. That is the only thing privatization accomplishes. Degrading the workforce .
Americans love tearing down their fellow Americans. Especially if they are doing better than they are.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
TriMet supervisors still don't have MDTs
For about two decades now, TriMet has had a bus dispatch system which continuously tracks vital information about each and every bus, including where it is, how early/late it is, who is operating it and any issues the operator has noted. However, the field supervisors and mechanics who are responsible for overseeing buses do not have mobile data terminals (MDTs) and can not directly access it.
Light Rail Draws To A Close In Portland
Amid the usual hoopla, Tri-Met opened its latest and greatest light
rail line; a $1.3 billion, 7.3-mile stretch from Portland to Milwaukie.
The good news for taxpayers is that this line should be the end of it.
No new light rail lines are likely to be built because the transit
development agency has run out of other peoples' money; federal
transportation dollars are running dry, meaning that they're unlikely to
continue to pony up for multibillion-dollar rail projects in the
foreseeable future.
Trimet Facebook bus driver complaint gets huge circulation
I hadn't realized this complaint had gotten such wide circulation until today. The FACEBOOK DISCUSSION is below the break
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| 1000 shares on facebook |
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
The Grand Ronde Tribe makes a Trimet ad
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| "They brought plague, genocide, and took our land. But then they gave us the Orange line so all is good now" |
Monday, September 21, 2015
Mcfarlane gets another secret raise
While perusing the Trimet checkbook I found a bunch of checks made out to our 'dear leader'. My guess is that he found yet another way to get himself a raise without needing approval. These checks amount to another $10,000 in his greedy little pocket
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Best of the Trimet checkbook bonanza
What you see here when you go through this information is what a BONANZA Trimet is for SOME people.
It's truly a pork barrel for some people.
It becomes obvious that many people and organizations are taking advantage of this bonanza.
I made notes on all the questionable expenses but there were so many of them I just decided to forget it.
Below the break are a handful of observations.
It's called CRONY CAPITALISM folks. And is ALL YOUR TAX MONEY
(Remember this info when they start complaining about union health care again)
Who's making money off the Trimet? The Trimet checkbook updated for FY 2015
The money machine!
This is the real power of Trimet and why there are hordes of apologists!
Lots of stuff here that I would love to have a forensic accounting of.
No 'reporters' in Portland are interested in digging up this information
Lots of stuff here that I would love to have a forensic accounting of.
No 'reporters' in Portland are interested in digging up this information
I've sorted the checkbook by payees, the information on the Trimet web site is basically unreadable but luckily I have some very basic computer skills to put this stuff into a format that is meaningful
Trimet riders complaint posted to Facebook
Today I was on the 75 bus at Hollywood TC around 12:30, when the driver got off the bus to use the bathroom. While he was gone, a woman got off to have a cigarette. When the driver got back, she tried to follow him back on the bus, but he slammed the door in her face. At this point, an 11-year-old child stood up and asked him to let her in, explaining that she was his mother. The driver completely ignored him and started driving. The kid started pleading and crying, and other people shouted at the driver to stop, but he kept driving until we got to the next stop, several blocks away.
First time we've seen this on a Trimet
First time we've seen a #Trimet train tagged in NYC type graffiti pic.twitter.com/udsB6QJUDG— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 20, 2015
Friday, September 18, 2015
Trimet coming back for more cuts to union employees
This is why we elected Shirley to the office of president. Mcfarlane has been lying right along about the 'budget being sustainable". Mcfarlane is the type of leader that cuts service, raises fares, cuts employees, and sneaks himself a raise at the same time.
Trimet continues expanding ahead of its ability to pay for services and it will be on the back of the employees again!
The man should be fired and disgraced, he is no hero!
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Trimet riders getting screwed by Trimet-Reddit
Warning! Warning! What is Stovall referring to?
Bet ya $1000 bucks he's not referring to Trimet executive internal problems!
#TriMet Stovall - "We need to shine light on internal problems".
— Lane Jensen (@lanejensenpdx) September 16, 2015
Trimet internal propaganda
There seems to be some dispute about the accuracy of the information that is being distributed to union employees. This information comes to me second hand and being a retiree I have no way to verify the accuracy for myself.
Sorry, nobody cares about this
#catchtheorange another #Trimet #fail mainstream media nowhere to be found pic.twitter.com/dwh4DCwJEl
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 16, 2015Tuesday, September 15, 2015
What the orange line has done to some Trimet users
And the press and Trimet will never even acknowledge it exists
Twitter complaint leads to bus stop closure
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| Mike on right |
Mike Bivins sent a complaint about a bus stop to Trimet twitter desk who then acknowledged it.
When Mike went back to that stop later it was closed.
WTF?
(click on pics to expand)
(click on pics to expand)
Monday, September 14, 2015
the Grand Ronde connection
Lane Jensen's "Trimess minute"
Click here!
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What's the future of TriMet? Here's a hint: It doesn't involve the Bus!
Click Here!
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Bicyclists of Portland: Follow the Rules of the Road!
Click Here!
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Operator Safety: A realistic goal for TriMet management, or Collateral damages that are "Par For the Course"?
Click Here!
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Taser Equality for Drivers?
Click Here!
Or you can just listen to any of the podcasts directly at : Lane's Website!
Trimet spends $1.49 billion on a bridge and party but they screw this guy (and others like him)
This is produced with the 'echo' because Trimet totally ignored him (and everyone else like him)
"That Scott Ford Guy"
This guy appeared on the Trimet twitter feed several months ago and is now one of the leading cheerleaders for the Trimet. To his credit he has not blocked me like most Trimet apologists. I still haven't figured out what his angle is however, why is he over the top with his pro trimet tweets?
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Kirk Reeves all but forgotten now
The 'people' chose a name for this bridge. #Trimet ignored 'the people' pic.twitter.com/2hO0BYoy2c
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 12, 2015
Trimet operator advocates program hits the skids
A consortium of private individuals had banded together in order to beef up security for bus operators on the 72 line. (Original Post Here)
Many operators feel that the company and the union are not doing an adequate job protecting them so they took matters into their own hands.
Apparently Trimet objected to this effort and forced it to an end.
(SURPRISE!)
Unpopular Trimet manager makes the Tribune fluff piece
Picture of #trimet's Dennis Van Dyke (very disliked manager) in this fluff Tribune piece
http://t.co/iveQ6I7xYQ pic.twitter.com/DANUGaKcJW
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 12, 2015Orange line is all about hype and business opportunites
Should be obvious to anyone with 1/2 a brain
The bridge of the "people" but the "important" people go first
VIP'S ONLY UNTIL 11 AM!
BRIDGE OF THE PEOPLE???
#CATCHTHEORANGE
#GOBYBOAT pic.twitter.com/V2ygQm46pq
— pdx boats (@pdxboats) September 12, 2015Friday, September 11, 2015
There goes our retirement bridge gets lit up
What a hokey show this is. Its true that Trimet union employees payed for all of this by giving up their retirement benefits
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Trimet already screwing up peoples commutes in Milwaukie
Light rail has zero effect on congestion and it actually increases congestion in many cases, like this
Why People Don't Use Mass Transit
This is one of the best essays I have ever read on the topic of transit use.
Catch the Orange!
#trimet MAX Yellow Line delayed up to 15 minutes through 5 p.m. due to earlier mechanical issue.
— unTriMet alerts (@unTriMetAlerts) September 10, 2015With all this ridiculous Trimet hub bub going on its time to re-read Phil Stanford
Your tax dollars at work
OOOOO! AHHHHH!
They made a new bridge with pretty lights!
I can't think of a better use of our tax dollars!
All this extra stuff and they still had to take away retirees medical benefits.
Classic Tweets
TriMet to mitigate poor design of new MAX shelters with Riders Club premium. Waterproof, green, sustainable pic.twitter.com/DZdE46Vgly
— Ron (@TelemachusRome) September 10, 2015Trimet propaganda campaign in full force
Most people wouldn't see this because they are not paying the kind of attention that I am.
But on social media right now there is an avalanche of this orange line propaganda that is unparalleled.
I've witnessed yellow/green/red/WES openings that were absurd but this just takes the cake. Why are the government officials so hot on making sure every citizen is exposed to this?
It's BRANDING, The citizens of greater Portland are being branded and they don't even know it.
The Portland Light Rail Mafia is huge and is embedded into all layers of local government and they need support from the public to keep things going the way they are going!
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| An example of literally thousands of tweets promoting this bridge and light rail line |
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Seen at Trimet Merlo garage
Seen at Merlo garage #Trimet #atu757 pic.twitter.com/2SNDmIDCCJ
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 9, 2015Tuesday, September 8, 2015
I don't have any idea what's going on here
But the picture is troubling. What have they done? Elevated this dumb bridge to the status of Pagan Idol?
Am I the only person that thinks this #trimet shit is sick? Disgusting pic.twitter.com/W9Se7sJA0u
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 8, 2015Am I the only Trimet union employee that gets upset when this shit appears in the maistream media?
@enjus do u mind explaining to us WHY this is the lead sentence in your “story” pic.twitter.com/kFMQTeWeG6
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 8, 2015Monday, September 7, 2015
Catch the Orange! Y'all gonna have a great time!
@trimetscanner may have been a blank, train now on E Burnside, operator to do a walk through
— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) September 7, 2015Sunday, September 6, 2015
Erik Halstead in the "belly of the beast"
It takes guts to go on the Trimet facebook page and say bad things about Trimet now. Trimet has really caught on to the social media game and out of nowhere appeared hunderds of Trimet shills that attack the handful of critics. Stand strong Erik, lots of people stand with you!
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Vancouver police do not cite C-Tran drivers
EngineerScotty
C-TRAN agrees to pay $2M to the family of a boy killed in a collision with a C-TRAN bus.
August 31, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Link
A key piece of evidence in the case was a memo from the Vancouver police department which spoke of “professional courtesy” towards C-TRAN drivers; the boy’s family alleged that the police routinely declined to cite public employees for moving violations, and that the police report in the case in question (which largely exonerated the driver–the boy was struck while riding in the bike lane through an intersection, albeit in the wrong direction) was unreliable due to such courtesy. (A similar allegation was raised nearly a decade ago in Beaverton when a TriMet bus pulling into a stop on Farmington sideswiped and killed a bicyclist; the police report there also blamed the cyclist, although further review suggests he was legally traveling in the bike lane).
Anecdotal evidence–but a quarter century ago, when I was still in college (and young and handsome :P), I was riding back to Portland with a friend when her car broke down. We called for a tow (fortunately I was covered by my parents’ AAA) and rode back to Portland in the cab of the tow truck, which was booking down I-205 at about 75MPH the whole way. I asked the tow truck driver if he was worried about a ticket–no, he informed me; cops never ticket tow truck drivers; and if they did, the police would have a nice long wait next time they n
Trimet operator advocates
#trimet pic.twitter.com/tOKKZMaqfk
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 6, 2015Friday, September 4, 2015
Portland Mercury
Dear shitbag MAX operators, did you not see us that night? A busload of
people, mostly women, trying to get home in the dark at Delta Park? You
must have been busy listening to the radio in your cab, quite possibly
hearing about the attempted abduction of a woman at a bus stop in
Jantzen Beach two days before. Or maybe the bodies of murdered found
everyday like trash on the sides of roads, but probably just the latest
updates on Slim Jim Kardashian bullshit or PPD's falsified gang violence
reports,. Screw you. We travel every night, no matter the weather,
dealing with creeps looking up our skirts, sexually harassing us and
pissing on the walls of your TRIMET stations just to be left to wait
another half hour (if we're lucky) in the dark. Thanks for not waiting
that extra 8 seconds after our bus unloaded so that we could board. Can I
give my momma your dirtbag number just in case I don't come home one
night? Choke on it.
http://m.portlandmercury.com/IAnonymousBlog/archives/2015/09/04/mom-called-she-thinks-youre-a-pdx-pos
http://m.portlandmercury.com/IAnonymousBlog/archives/2015/09/04/mom-called-she-thinks-youre-a-pdx-pos
Thursday, September 3, 2015
The hazardous myth of bus driver's 'rocking and rolling'
Massive Mobile Manslaughter Machines
Lawrence J. Hanley
Roughly
one pedestrian per week is killed by a transit bus in the United
States. This includes people like 22-year old Danielle Sale, who raised
money for the homeless as a young child, participated in annual multiple
sclerosis fundraiser walks, and never got a chance to launch her
promising medical career after being crushed by a bus in Portland.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Dan nails it
#Trimet Multi-Million dollar bridge=YES, High tech equipment= NO, pic.twitter.com/hEw8ngtyI3
— Dan Christensen (@Dan_Christensen) September 1, 2015I was under the impression that Joe Rose was done writing Trimet press releases
I guess we were all wrong. The article is hardly worth reading,the same old mainstream media crap spitting back whatever Trimet officials tell them.
But the COMMENTS are well worth reading
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Trimet propaganda now in with your PGE bill?
#Trimet propaganda has now reached people that use #pge
In with the bill #disgusting pic.twitter.com/eBA3L2SuPw
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) September 1, 2015