Long live the queen

And we finally have a picture of TRIMET QUEEN BEE! pic.twitter.com/beLttlD1Pk

— AL M (@AlYourPalster) March 28, 2019

The Trimet board meeting roundup

Trimet secret society meets this Wednesday

And here’s what they are up to and who’s getting the money 💰! 🐷🐷🐷🐷
https://trimet.org/meetings/board/index.htm

Jay Frye calls it quits

Jay Frye retires. He suffered the Trimet treatment! Good luck Jay pic.twitter.com/SJD8ePqyC3

— AL M (@AlYourPalster) March 25, 2019

Partial list of bus and max fatalities

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/list-of-trimet-bus-related-fatalities-since-1988/283-89861096

http://www.portlandfacts.com/transit/maxkills1998-2006-04.html

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Trimet

I don't see how ya'II could or would work for a company whose mission is something you oppose.  Sure, I like our retirement, but I spent 25 years working for Trimet.  I am neither ashamed nor embrassed of my time there. I believe in the mission because I believe mass transit is good for any metropolitan area.
I also believe that most employees strive to give the tax payers a good value for the money.  Our retirements are dependent on current employees successfully growing that company.

Response

Al M and Neal Berlin discuss ‘where we live’ by KOIN

https://youtu.be/1Z63tJ8e_zI

Who the hell is running Trimet twitter anyway?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahah pic.twitter.com/emIsnq7QTB

— AL M (@AlYourPalster) March 20, 2019

Public transit private trauma

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/public-transit-private-trauma-507167902.html?fbclid=IwAR3zX91186uFwSujXKLXsc1SpeUS52f3TghoW9xTFhlr2mnP5M3pEIwS2A8


Drivers describe frequent verbal, physical abuse on the road and then being thrown under the bus by insensitive colleagues, supervisors
By: Ben Waldman

Bus drivers with true heart dealing with the problems of the world run by sociopaths

This is my last sign up working late nights being the one kicking sleepers off into the darkness is damage to my soul I can no longer tolerate. There is a total lack of support in this city and it's left to the people at the bottom to clean this mess up.

— timberlake (@maniacmikey) March 17, 2019

Another failed Trimet internal survey

Less than 1:5 employees bothered to take this survey so it’s  impossible to extrapolate any meaningful information. What they got was more technocratic mumbo jumbo

Hate agreeing with this guy

Sadly, no one at Metro or TriMet cares what taxpayers want—they only care about expanding their bureaucratic empires. Voters should remember this when the bond measure is unveiled later this year.

(Hate to agree with this guy) https://t.co/B9Fyyuvq91

— AL M (@AlYourPalster) March 6, 2019

Trimet thread by @transitreview

This is like, a super condensed version of .@AlYourPalster Al's https://t.co/ksl8rN0Rlt ⚡️ “TriMet violence” by @TransitReview #portland #trimet #transit #OR #Oregon #rail #bus #publictransportation https://t.co/OPhq0UmJq8

— The Transit Review (@TransitReview) March 8, 2019

Lol

Hahahaha

What will they think of next ?

How bout stop nitpicking your drivers to death pic.twitter.com/zjpjFfQeOA

— AL M (@AlYourPalster) March 5, 2019

The good old days

John Ley

https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/op-ed-mass-transit-use-to-portland-continues-its-decline/

The true story of the Max FAQs blog

Max Faqs blog was one of the best light rail blogs that has ever existed. Now that so much time has passed I wanted to tell the story of the Max FAQs blog and my relationship with the author

Trimet Deke N’Blue

Local transit management should have been fired years ago, but it has been allowed to run roughshod over its own employees and the communities it serves. It has too much unchecked power for far too long. It promised its employees decades ago to fund a pension and provide medical insurance for a career that results in health issues in lieu of regular pay increases, but when it was caught red-handed having not done so, nobody was disciplined. Somebody should be in jail as a result, but an internet search for this fails to bring up the true story
https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-i-want-to-fix-portland-transit.html

Trimet public records

Trimet board highlights

Mo money Mo money Mo money

I’m going to Vegas now!

$27/month more to blow!

🎰🎰🎰 🎰 pic.twitter.com/ubCaqsO2nG

— AL M (@AlYourPalster) March 1, 2019

Trimet seniority reports

https://app.box.com/s/3nwvjerggvribeh8dshjci7vid6avr6o

The Resistance

The resistance pic.twitter.com/Eb1lCBcuCN

— AL M (@AlYourPalster) March 2, 2019