TriMet board meeting part
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 31, 2021
1-Electric bus briefing
5-Better red briefing
3-a few bus callshttps://t.co/mx1UmABb4p pic.twitter.com/JOIVCX2Lr3
Monday, May 31, 2021
TRIMET BOARD MEETING PART 5
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 30
Little Leon! pic.twitter.com/pZAdSljRX2
— Rippy (Da Ripster) (@realripcity) May 31, 2021
A JOINT PROJECT OF MYSELF AND @REALRIPCITY
Winner of the best mask competition
https://t.co/WFkSaw7SL7 pic.twitter.com/x3B2wSYola
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 31, 2021
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Trimet Deke!
No hazard pay, ridiculous signs lamely proclaiming "Heroes Work Here" as our numbers were terrorized by a bloodthirsty management, and a plummeting morale among those who kept transit afloat despite its mismanagement of our well being. https://t.co/9cQNsbpK5w
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 30, 2021
Saturday, May 29, 2021
TRIMET BOARD MEETING PART 4
TRIMET MAY BOARD MEETING-PART 4
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 30, 2021
1-the new officers, no discussion at all, these decisions where all made in private apparently
2-resolutions and pork barrelshttps://t.co/U9voTAcRXQ
Friday, May 28, 2021
TRIMET MAY BOARD MEETING-PART 3
TRIMET MAY BOARD MEETING-PART 3
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 29, 2021
1-Gerneral Managers (interim) Report
2-Cindy Kassabhttps://t.co/Szv7ttdXt6
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 27
Thursday, May 27, 2021
TRIMET BOARD MEETING PART 2
TRIMET BOARD MEETING PART 2
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 28, 2021
1-Committee reports
2-Finding ways to increase the general managers payhttps://t.co/4X9TNFyHqn
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 26
oh poootie shut up
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 27, 2021
lucky you got that shot! pic.twitter.com/wUuO4u9rSe
MEET THE CANDIDATES
There are more candidates than the people I covered here, these are the people I know.
A full list of candidates is HERE
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Trimet May Board meeting part 1
TRIMET MAY BOARD MEETING-PUBLIC TESTIMONYhttps://t.co/rCjX8HhXSi
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 26, 2021
MASS SHOOTING BY VTA WORKER!
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| THE KILLER |
Nelms, teary-eyed and shaken by the news, said her ex-husband would come home wound up and angry about things that happened at work. As he talked about it, “he would get more mad,” she said. “He could dwell on things.”
The victims' jobs included bus and light rail operators, mechanics, linemen and assistant superintendent. One had worked for the transit authority since 1999.
San Jose gunman expressed hatred for his workplace in notes discovered years ago, official says
VIDEO OF KILLER WALKING TO NEXT BUILDING TO KILL MORE PEOPLE
Union Leader, VTA Deny Reports That Samuel Cassidy Was Facing Disciplinary Meeting
INTERVIEWS WITH EX WIFE AND NEIGHBORS
Fathers, husbands and heroes: The nine men killed in San Jose’s VTA mass shooting
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ https://t.co/NiybGzMSin
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 25, 2021
Monday, May 24, 2021
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 23
Fresh Mushrooms! pic.twitter.com/LJprIMxlpY
— Rippy (Da Ripster) (@realripcity) May 21, 2021
CALLS BY RIPPY TODAY
Sunday, May 23, 2021
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 22
Probably cam from the ditch! pic.twitter.com/3pKRDnocNt
— Rippy (Da Ripster) (@realripcity) May 22, 2021
CALLS BY ME AND RIPPY
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Not sure what I think of this
stood and gave an awesome heartfelt speech highlighting Bre’s accomplishments and accommodations from Trimet and our passengers as well as sympathy and condolences to her friends and family on behalf of Trimet.
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 22, 2021
Friday, May 21, 2021
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Monday, May 17, 2021
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 16
Everyone gets all hot and bothered over the vaccines but nobody cares about this pic.twitter.com/wgSVFRdkjr
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 16, 2021
ALL CALLS BY RIPPY TODAY
Sunday, May 16, 2021
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 15
Saturday’s calls are posted to 12:26pm for your listening pleasure. Beautiful day in Portland, OR. pic.twitter.com/ET6RCamB5D
— Rippy (Da Ripster) (@realripcity) May 16, 2021
TRIMET DEKE
How is it that our country supports a military budget that overwhelms that of our collective "enemies" while the least of threats to national security are actually the most intense to our collective well-being? If we cannot take care of those of US who need it most, why are we so concerned with the Middle East?
How can we claim moral superiority when millions of our own suffer in such squalor and unnecessary pain? Half this country is so self-centered it cannot reconcile itself with Christ's most-passionate plea: love one another as you would have them love you.
This past eight years has been the most instructive of my six decades. Life is often cruel, and those of us on the bottom of the capitalistic pay scale work ourselves to death with little to claim at the end of our useful years.
Saturday, May 15, 2021
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 14
1959 GM "New Look" bus.
— Rippy (Da Ripster) (@realripcity) May 15, 2021
Rose City Transit, sometime before 1970. pic.twitter.com/TISqeUCli8
Friday, May 14, 2021
NEW BLOOD COMING UP
Vote for Nova Fortier, David Holland, and Elizabeth Buckwalter
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 15, 2021
the competitionhttps://t.co/IGSA9So7A6#atu757 #trimet
It’s KEITH!
Man banned from @trimet property arrested again after violating terms of his release agreement. Court records show Keith Edward Grotewold is charged with over 30 counts of interfering with public transportation. On April 7th he broke the windshield wipers of a bus and blocked it pic.twitter.com/AK962vp9HP
— jeff kirsch (@jakatkatu) May 14, 2021
Thursday, May 13, 2021
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 12
Calls to 12:05 for yesterday! pic.twitter.com/a0mTy9pgKU
— Rippy (Da Ripster) (@realripcity) May 13, 2021
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 11
This is Pootie dream girl @AlYourPalster pic.twitter.com/5BNapvPJq4
— Rippy (Da Ripster) (@realripcity) May 12, 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Monday, May 10, 2021
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Friday, May 7, 2021
TRIMET DEKE PULLS NO PUNCHES
Heroes, my ass. You couldn't even use the chunk of dough the feds gave you to provide us with hazard pay during this pandemic, as other cities did. Our union had to call in the International Amalgamated Transit Union heavies to get you to even listen to our representatives at the negotiations for our yearlong contract talks. Negotiations in which you insisted upon a terribly-long list of "takeaways" while ignoring our pleas for the most basic of necessities. In the end, we get a pittance of what we have earned through our professionalism despite your harassment. Wow, I truly feel heroic with a pay raise that once again failed to match the increased cost of living. It certainly doesn't reward us for choking through the past year where every moment on the job we risked our very lives.
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Trimet bus driver murdered
RIP pic.twitter.com/FwARlm9qh2
— Putin on a Dogecoin (@RealPootie) May 7, 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
TRIMET SCANNER MAY 3
Calls to 12:24 for yesterday! pic.twitter.com/l4oyPF1EDW
— Rippy (Da Ripster) (@realripcity) May 4, 2021
CALLS BY RIP CITY AND ALYOURPALSTER
Another casualty of The TriMet industrial complex
Another one bites the dust https://t.co/HMkznp5Neu
— Al M (@AlYourPalster) May 4, 2021
Monday, May 3, 2021
Sunday, May 2, 2021
TriMet Deke hits the wall
I have both excelled and failed In this bus operator's journal. While so far I have failed in this post to describe to you what it was like to drive a bus 150 miles in 10 hours today, it has become an alternate goal over most of this decade to share my inner thoughts. At this point, my mind has become numb. Pandemic, protest/violent Portland riots, isolation from beloved friends and excruciating passenger moments..
