The Trimet crime syndicate was really on a roll of crushing riders in the 2010's: Killed fareless square, tore out excellent downtown bus stops and replaced them with anti-human designs, cut down the shade trees at Gateway, ended short hop fares (meaning increased basic fee to access public transit), eliminated paper transfers (making it harder for riders to share the fare), disabled electrical outlets at most MAX stations just as the Trimet App came out (you could get a ticket if you paid but your phone failed), HOP showed up and made it impossible to make last minute $ fare choices, HOP required more than a basic fare amount to operate (plus you had to have internet access and a smart phone), fare enforcement increased, Ghost Buses (pulling buses to bail out max, but failing to remove those runs from transit tracker, thus stranding bus riders I'm sure there's more. But taken as a whole, it was a decade of war on transit dependent and poor riders.
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