Steve Novick on the new light rail line

Jeff Merkley on the new light rail line

Tempers flare at Trimet rail

It gets heated over there especially when the shit has been hitting the fan for awhile

Mcfarlane talks about the Orange line

Don't let this happen to you!

These are the kind of things that can happen to bus drivers without warning!

Don't believe the hype

We all know how all Portland area citizens have been barraged for months (actually years) on the wonderfulness of the new light rail project.
Blah Blah Blah.

Mainstream media in this area will not cover any dissenting opinions on this topic. Only glowing gushy praise of the most idiotic sort is allowed when it comes to Trimet light rail projects. We all know the local government basically controls the mainstream media here in Portlandia.

How do people really feel about the project? Here is a sampling of comments from the only newspaper in town. And its not the government paradigm. Sure there are some positive but the majority are not exactly complimentary

Erik gives the Trimet salute

More garbage from the queen of crazy, Ellen Fox

Ellen is an 'emotional vampire'

Oh Ellen, you're so predictable and so full of hatred.
What happened to you anyway? Did you have some sort of traumatic childhood experience that deeply affected you? Something must have happened because you are so off the wall.

Here's her latest nonsense about me.

Look at all the rusted out boats they got along 17th

It's Trimet "art"

Trimet's sustainable trackway

Consists of one block of track that has some grass planted in the middle

Video of the full ride on the $1.5 billion orange line

Video is by Bob Richardson, the guy that threw me off Portland Transport for calling him a blog Nazi. These folks at Portland Transport are very sensitive to any criticism and 100% apologists for the Portland Light Rail Mafia 
(you can hear the party of the oligarchs going on in the background) 

Longest pedestrian bridge in the world

The Poughkeepsie Bridge
The bridge has been transformed into a 1.25-mile pedestrian bridge

Longest Transit bridge in North America

The SkyBridge is a cable-stayed bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Built between 1987 and 1989, it spans the Fraser River and connects New Westminster with Surrey.

Somebody is unhappy with "The Trimet"

Portland Oligarchs couldn't care less about the average citizen

Thousands of people need to get to work on Sunday mornings. Many of them are working class and don't have access to a car. These oligarchs and their stooges have no concern whatsoever about these people.

 Having a 'run' which the vast majority of citizens could care less about that disrupts the lives of ordinary people  is the height of disrespect. Especially since there are multitudes of locations to have a 'run' and not disrupt the lives of ordinary citizens, like the spring-water trail for example.

I just don't get why the whole city has to suffer so a bunch of obsessive compulsive people who spend a significant portion of each of their days running around in circles get to have the entire city as their track meet?

Oh yea, I forgot, its a public relations stunt, its so tourists will come here.

Everyone knows that the tourist business is more important than Joe Sixpack's life.

MLR in one minute

Guess what it looks like? It looks like every other light rail line in the country. $1.5 billion for this?

With all the hype lets put the MLR into the proper context

This is what $1.5 BILLION could have purchased

The longest non car bridge in North America?

New #trimet max bridge longest non car bridge in N America? pic.twitter.com/N6B0MtVjoI

— AL M (@AlYourPalster) May 15, 2015

Another day another max delay

The preferring of charges sabotage

On April 20^th 2015 I went down to our union office to serve a Preferring of Charges towards Bruce Hansen, Jonathan Hunt and Mary Logoria. I brought 5 copies of the charges to the union hall. The secretary was there to receive the copies. I told her 1 copy for me so she stamped it received and gave me that back. Then the next copy was for the office so she wrote office on top and stamped that received. We then continued with Bruce, then Jon and then Mary. Each one she wrote the person’s name up top and stamped received. At that point I considered the charges as being served.

Bruce sent Larry Hanley (International President) a letter with questions about the Preferring of Charges along with a copy of the charges. In this letter Bruce states that the office has been served and as of current no member being charged has been served.

Oligarchs and their stooges ride the $1.5 billion light rail

Fortunes were made off this project

Most likely the one and only time any of them will ever ride this line. The pro Trimet propaganda keeps flying
(they did allow some of the activists to ride but Joe Public has to wait till Sept 12)

April's weird TriMet service alerts

NOTE: Many of these alerts were written by dispatchers who are not expected to be language experts, may not have time to proofread, and make mistakes like all humans.  They may have many other tasks in progress at the moment, such as dealing with buses that are already stuck due to the blockage or situations elsewhere.  While those errors probably should be forgiven, they can cause confusion or problems for those who try to follow them.

ATU757 CAMPAIGN POSTERS

I will update this post as more posters become available
(the comments are just my dealings with these folks)

More Trimet hype destroyed

All the never ending false propaganda pumped out by Trimet is just plain false. 

6% of Portland area citizens commute via Trimet. 

At least its better than LA.

Source here

MAX operator on his last nerve