How ridiculous

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Isn't she lovely?

@bgrmosaic @PMLRProject http://t.co/u1eqnISlvb
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) April 4, 2014

These bus drivers know what solidarity is

"Screw the court order"

Despite the Bombay high court ordering the drivers and conductors of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking to report to work, they continued to abstain from it on Tuesday evening by way of mass leave. However, it is not clear if the staff will turn up at depots on Wednesday.
With neither the BEST administration nor the staff ready to blink first, the authorities had to move court to provide relief to commuters. The HC ordered the staff of around 22,000 drivers and conductors to report to work at 4.45pm. The mass leave that began at 4am on Tuesday was not called off even by late on Tuesday night.
On Tuesday morning, only 17 conductors and 20 drivers turned up for work and only eight out of the fleet of around 4,200 buses came on roads. But even these eight had to be brought back to the depot after one of the buses was damaged and a driver sustained injuries due to stone-pelting by protesting workers at Charkop in Kandivli.

BEST staff continue with bus strike for a second day | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

Trimet phony baloney WES statistics

Trimet will brag publicly that WES ridership has increased by 16%!

But guess what actual WES ridership has fallen from January!

Gotta keep an eye on these devious mofo's!

In January there were  2010 "boarding rides"

In February 1980 rose the WES, that's 30 less 'boarding rides"

Trimet bus safety takes a turn for the worse

What's wrong with the bus safety program? Look at the sharp increase in the accidents!

Shelly Devine appointed to be big cheese of legal affairs

The truth about Trimet

DE-CODING TRIMET 'PAGES'

This post has been removed to protect the innocent

The truth about Trimet and it's 'TRANSIT SHOCK DOCTRINE'

The mainstream media will only allow the public to hear half truths about who runs its transit system

FRED HANSEN QUITS AS TRIMET GENERAL MANAGER IN FACE OF PROTESTS
author: Lew Church, PSU Progressive Student Union
Fred Hansen, TriMet's $250,000 per year General Manager, announced he is quitting the transit agency after 11 years.

Karen Bowerman

Dear Friends,
Do you live on Pothole Road?  Do you feel like a stunt driver when avoiding potholes? Few argue that county roads are in disrepair, but ask our residents and you'll hear that roads are the priority (along with public safety). The simple truth is that our allocation of gasoline tax dollars is flung far and wide. We need our county commissioners to stand against gas tax dollars being drained by light rail and pathways. Similarly we need our county commissioners to stop TriMet funds from your payroll taxes being bled for light rail before bus service meets our everyday transportation needs. 

Portland Transport interview with Mcfarlane part 3

Mcfarlane stumbles to find explanations

This is the explanation of why they tore up the old Transit mall

http://trimet.org/about/history/portlandmall.htm

STOP THE GREED AT TRIMET PART 2

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STOP THE GREED AT TRIMET

TRIMET BUS DRIVER DRAGGED INTO OFFICE AND HUMILIATED BY MANAGEMENT

She described her experience. Her voice has been changed for obvious reasons. Management berates the employee for missing a stop

TRIMET FUEL FUTURES FIASCO

Trimet officials obviously didn't read this

Trimet officials have been publicly blaming the union for all financial problems at Trimet while it is the management themselves that have created the problem by wantonly wasting tax payer dollars.
 

 And in this article we see how the pattern of keeping things out of the public domain is standard operating proceudre at Trimet. Everything is secret at Trimet

TriMet has lost $2.6 million so far on a two-year diesel fuel hedge contract it entered into in August, part of a bleak budget picture that has the transit agency proposing to cut 12 of its 93 bus lines.

TriMet did not disclose the $2.6 million lost from September through January when it proposed last month some $6 million in service cuts for next fiscal year -- its sharpest reductions in more than a decade. Instead, the agency emphasized sharply reduced payroll tax receipts, which make up more than half TriMet's revenues.  

Nor have agency officials discussed the hedge losses before the agency's full board, even though TriMet could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars more in coming months.
The board's finance committee is aware of the losses, board President George Passadore said. 

The amount of the losses came to light last week through the efforts of Portland citizen activist Thomas O'Keefe, who pressed the agency for details on the hedge agreements.
Passadore, a former Wells Fargo executive, said there was "absolutely" no attempt to hide the hedge losses.

 Read the full article by Bob McEwen, The Oregonian@ TriMet's gambit on diesel fuel goes bust | OregonLive.com

Mcfarlane himself became GM of Trimet under very suspicious circumstances

Just another example of how Trimet has been conning the public for years now.

 This article is reprinted from the DEAD HORSE TIMES

TriMet and the quest for a Transit Professional (updated)

Update:  The initial reports that Grace Crunican would be named to the TriMet GM post were incorrect--TriMet has in fact named Neil McFarlane, who presently serves as the agency's executive director of capital projects, to the post.   Portions of this post have been edited to reflect the fact.

TriMet, it is now being reported, will on Wednesday named a new General Manager, to replace the departing (and oft-criticized) Fred Hansen.  The selection was an inside hire, capital projects executive director Neil McFarlane.  Such business is on the published agenda for Wednesday's board meeting, and while nothing official has been announcedPreviously, sources had indicated that the new bus boss willwould be one Grace Crunican.  Crunican has lots of experience in transportation administration, having previous gigs as the head of the City of Seattle Transportation Department, and of ODOT prior to that. 

Some, in town, are not happy with the rumored choice--either with the process undertaken to recruit a new GM, nor with the particularrumored choice.  The TriMet board didn't apparently seek outside advice in the hiring process (they are not required to, but the failure to do so is questionable politics); many at Metro, in particular, are annoyed

TriMet Tuesday in Portland's Community Court

You can plead not guilty and get a date in court.
You can pay a fine. The basic fine for not having a valid ticket is $175, but can go as high as $250. If you attend court you can have it reduced to $90.
You can plead no contest, complete eight hours of community service and have the ticket dismissed. Later it’s possible to have it expunged.  But if you fail to complete the hours, the misdemeanor, “Theft of Service” goes on your record and you can’t get it expunged.
If your ticket is expired, or if you left your honored citizen pass at home, the result is the same, she says.  You didn’t have a valid ticket to ride.
“There’s no attorney because this is a violation and not a crime,” Arling says. Technically, however, most of the charges are “theft of service.”
“You’re all innocent till proved guilty,” he says, and explains the options again.
“The good news is that there is no risk of jail no matter what. The bad news is that because it’s a violation you have fewer rights. The standard of proof is a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt. That’s 51 percent compared to 99 percent.”
Read the full article:  The Skanner Newspaper - TriMet Tuesday in Portland's Community Court

Remembering the incompetence and corruption of the WES

Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian

Two commuter rail cars from Colorado Railcar Manufacturing finally arrived in Wilsonville in June and two more in September after delays, turmoil and more than $5 million in added costs to TriMet.

Documents

Portland Transport Mcfarlane interview part 2

Bob Richardson banned me for "LIFE"!

Either Trimet is intentionally sending out false information or they are incompetent as hell

#TRIMET PUTS OUT FALSE INFORMATION https://t.co/TI4xc8MqfH http://t.co/5wUVV4k612 http://t.co/CVoGUe4tqH

— TriMet Scanner (@trimetscanner) April 2, 2014

TRIMET SCANNER WINS AGAIN

Ah that pesky light rail

Portland (and Trimet) ranks close to the bottom on funding retirees pensions/benefits

Interesting indeed that Portland (and Trimet) , the so called 'socialist city' has made as public policy to not fund pensions/OPEB obligations.

It's just more evidence that the Portland as advertised is complete bullshit. The oligarchs have taken all the money that was supposed to be for retirees and spent it on other things. Then they all cry "employee benefits will kill us"

One con after another in 'sustainable green' Portlandia. If only we can wake up the citizenry to the farce that gets played out oh so professionally on them.

A Widening Gap in Cities - Pew_city_pensions_report.pdf

Trimet general manager decides that the last arbitration award was sufficient for current retirees

Trimet Gen. manager Neil Mcfarlane has changed his stance on retiree benefits.

McFarlane says "after further analysis it became apparent to me that changing retiree benefits beyond the scope of arbitrator Gabba's  last ruling would put some retirees financial future in jeopardy"

Mcfarlane further said "we don't want to send a message to our current  employees that Trimet will abandon them  after they retired, that our word is meaningless"

 "We already have a morale problem at Trimet and we don't need to further exasperate this problem".

"Now our current retirees won't have to worry about medical bankruptcy during their retirement. After studying the evidence it became clear that we can fund those medical benefits as promised by cutting some executive staff and spending discretionary funds with more scrutiny."

"We don't need to penalize those people for the past mistakes."