Quick scan. No mechanical, trespassing , sleepers or lost and found etc
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Monday, May 28, 2018
From the Drivers Side question and answers from ATU757 candidates
John Wold
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/john-wold-on-his-vp-candidacy.html
Bruce Hansen
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/candidate-bruce-hansen-states-his-views.html
Henry Beasley
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/henry-beasley-presidential-candidate.html
Gordon Duncan
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/vp-candidate-profile-gordon-duncan.html
Chris Day
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/atu-candidate-profile-chris-day.html
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/john-wold-on-his-vp-candidacy.html
Bruce Hansen
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/candidate-bruce-hansen-states-his-views.html
Henry Beasley
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/henry-beasley-presidential-candidate.html
Gordon Duncan
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/vp-candidate-profile-gordon-duncan.html
Chris Day
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/atu-candidate-profile-chris-day.html
Sunday, May 27, 2018
Jay still being Trimetized
It’s unfortunate that Trimet hires so many questionable drivers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=T6wzNywht10
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=T6wzNywht10
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Friday, May 25, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Is Trimet really in the process of change?
Mcfarlane slinked out the back door (to his tax funded six figure retirement) and three board members got "fired". Some of the activist groups see these moves as evidence that things may be 'changing' at Trimet.
Personally I'm not buying any of it.
Obviously our masters are aware that Trimet has a public relations problem.
Trimet officials knew they couldn't get the citizens to open their wallets.
It was so bad they turned the whole thing over to Metro hoping that they can coax the citizens into ponying up their hard earned cash for that horrible southwest corridor project.
The masters have plowed 100's of millions of payroll tax dollars on that damn project, they don't need voters approval for that.
Any citizen capable of rational independent thought knows that all of these Trimet capital projects serve the elites that are involved in the projects.
From the planners, engineers, construction contractors, managers, coordinators etc etc on and on. This project will do nothing to help the citizens anymore than that Division gentrification project will.
Meanwhile Trimet on the ground services continue to struggle
Meanwhile Trimet on the ground services continue to struggle
The "leadership" has basically remained the same at Trimet.
Kelsey is Mcfarlanes hand picked successor and Bruce Warner remains the president of that sock puppet board.
None of the three new board members know anything about transit from what I've seen.
Our 'masters' are experts at fooling us.
All they want is our money.
Government today serves only the interests of the elites, you see it at all levels.
Don't buy the hype.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Sock puppets are meeting today
loads of corporate welfare being handed out
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999318358523707392?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999317752497213440?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999317031244754944?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999316293395341312?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999315756218306561?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999315283855708160?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999314714223087624?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999318358523707392?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999317752497213440?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999317031244754944?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999316293395341312?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999315756218306561?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999315283855708160?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/999314714223087624?s=21
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Conversation with Eli Richey
Pacifist and Police accountability activist Eli Richey rots in the American gulag on a Class C misdemeanor charge. I know for sure why he's sitting in jail, and its no different from when Lane Jensen ended up in jail. He was getting in the way of the people that rule our lives. Eli is no threat to anybody and the case is a farce. But hey, this is the united states of america, land of the free, where we are free to do as we are told, or else.Trimet Deke’n in Blue
If you want to improve customer service then fix the model, because it's broken into a million pieces. People call in to complain about operators without even knowing the rules and regulations which guide us every day. They also often lie about what actually happens.
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/lack-of-managerial-common-sense-adds-to.html
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2018/05/lack-of-managerial-common-sense-adds-to.html
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Friday, May 18, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Friday, May 11, 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018
KPTV does a Trimet ad
The only thing this would be useful for would be to help recruit new operators, its certainly not news
https://youtu.be/hPz67yXzF4c
https://youtu.be/hPz67yXzF4c
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The Portland Business Alliance’s New TriMet-Based Pipeline for Indentured Labor
I want to expand on something I brought up in my critique of TriMet’s new business plan: the company’s new partnership with Portland Patrol, Inc. to create a new kind of security presence on transit, called “Transit Peace Officers.” Specifically, I want to elaborate on my fear that the PPI contract, in concert with TriMet’s new fine-or-community-service system to resolve fare evasion citations, creates a mechanism for the Portland Business Alliance to effectively force low-income folks to provide free labor for the Clean & Safe Program.
https://medium.com/@andrewariley/the-portland-business-alliances-new-trimet-based-pipeline-for-indentured-labor-b4b57db57e60
https://medium.com/@andrewariley/the-portland-business-alliances-new-trimet-based-pipeline-for-indentured-labor-b4b57db57e60
Places where cops DO NOT check transit fares
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/Blogh/archives/2018/04/30/port-authority-drops-proposal-to-check-light-rail-transit-fares-with-armed-police-officers
Cleveland Ohio, where it’s been ruled unconstitutional
https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/11/02/cleveland-judge-has-ruled-rtas-proof-of-payment-fare-enforcement-method-unconstitutional
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/Blogh/archives/2018/04/30/port-authority-drops-proposal-to-check-light-rail-transit-fares-with-armed-police-officers
Cleveland Ohio, where it’s been ruled unconstitutional
https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/11/02/cleveland-judge-has-ruled-rtas-proof-of-payment-fare-enforcement-method-unconstitutional
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Monday, May 7, 2018
Trimet’s Bullshit ‘new’ business plan
Well, it’s a new year and with it, TriMet management has published another “new five-year business plan” to outline their vision for 2019 through 2023, at least on the “business” end of things. Just like the last one, this plan is chock-full of corporate double-speak, screwy assumptions about transit, and a really bleak vision for the future of TriMet. Let’s talk a walk through boss-speak and deconstruct what new General Manager Doug Kelsey and his senior leaders are actually talking about:
https://medium.com/@andrewariley/trimets-bullshit-new-business-plan-redux-cabc07847616
https://medium.com/@andrewariley/trimets-bullshit-new-business-plan-redux-cabc07847616
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Trimet bus operator seniority rules under fire
Trimet has been establishing seniority of bus drivers by putting the names off all training class participants into a hat and then drawing names one at a time. Many newer operators object to this system and would like to see a fairer system implemented.
Like, hire date for example, like the rest of the world does it.
Like, hire date for example, like the rest of the world does it.
Saturday, May 5, 2018
The Trimet board meeting-part 4-5-6
I hear lots of frustrations regarding operational procedures and expectations over the scanner and there is no reference to any of that during the board meeting. They even roll out some ‘exceptional’ Employees. There are issues going on operationally that are not acknowledged at this meeting. Remember these meetings are scripted
Friday, May 4, 2018
Control/Dispatch May 2
Falling further and further behind means I listen to less and less calls. Impossible to keep up with all the calls
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Trimet BS exposed
Every year, the agency conducts a public opinion poll to prove to the community that they are popular and effective. Every year, the results are skewed heavily and represent an unrealistic and ill-informed view of what TriMet does, and how our regional transit system functions.
http://www.opalpdx.org/2018/05/trimets-skewed-annual-survey/
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Jeff Ackerson retired
Jeff was my main man while battling the forces of evil in my last two years at Trimet.
He had enough, I was told he bailed a month earlier than planned.
We had a falling out after I left Trimet but he was one of the more important characters while I was there.
Happy retirement Jeff
http://www.rosecitytransit.org/radio/2018/4/30/102436-107-3223.mp3
https://vimeo.com/22205712
He had enough, I was told he bailed a month earlier than planned.
We had a falling out after I left Trimet but he was one of the more important characters while I was there.
Happy retirement Jeff
http://www.rosecitytransit.org/radio/2018/4/30/102436-107-3223.mp3
https://vimeo.com/22205712