RANTINGS OF A FORMER TRIMET BUS DRIVER

Friday, November 10, 2017

Trimet final offer

i know it's not perfect and outsourcing is bad, but i vote yes to this offer.
It's more or less reasonable in my opinion
https://t.co/7TJpyp68xS

Shirley accepted the final offer, it goes to the voting members now

https://articles.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2017/11/trimet_union_reach_tentative_c.amp

LA transit suffering the same sickness as Portland Trimet

That's the neoliberal takeover of public transportation exemplified by an almost religious attachment to high priced light rail projects while the people that actually need transit get left behind.

We have already examined this incident in great detail HERE, HERE and HERE.

This is the unedited data pack video

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

The problem with public transportation is the public has no role in planning it

Trimet board retreat-part 1

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

More on Jeff Roberts

This is the paper trail of Trimet people that were involved in the "investigation" of this complaint its incredible.

A Huge list of people were involved with this whole thing!

Even Neil Mcfarlane was on the list.

Now why would Neil Mcfarlane be reviewing any operator related complaints?

The only thing I can think of is formulating the Trimet public relations angle.

And that supports my contention that Trimet used this incident to its advantage, and threw Jeff under the bus with malice.

We've all seen the DATA PACK and we've seen the KGW STORY and it becomes obvious that this story had no business on the "news".

It was Trimet public relations.
Thanks Dora Morgan for obtaining this information

Jeff Roberts data pack

Click Here!

Trimet HB 2777- Fare evasion

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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Trimet fare inspection procedure ruled unconstitutional in another district

https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/926207901785645056

TriMet doesn't know its elevators

E-mail/RSS sent out today (original is here):

Another knife attack on MAX

Not a word in the mainstream media, of course.
I guess riders have to die to get coverage in the media.
All we get from mainstream media is stories about bus drivers that have no access to a restroom taking a piss in a parking lot and bus drivers having disputes with passengers in their face. What a joke Click Here!

It did show up on the news, trivialized
http://katu.com/news/local/police-fight-on-max-causes-train-delays-in-portland

Sunday, October 29, 2017

John Gardner

He gives a presentation on the low income fare.

Click Here!

Jim Howell really should be on the Trimet board

Not only does he have the longest history of transit activism in the area he probably has the best ideas of anyone I've ever heard speaking on the topic of Trimet.

He's published numerous articles concentrating on issues involving mass transit in the greater Portland area and made dozens of appearances at these board meetings

Click Here!

Thursday, October 26, 2017

The Trimet budget is a shell game

My colleague and comrade Jared Franz has an evergreen saying: “TriMet’s budget is just an elaborate shell game.”

What he means is that the company has the money it needs to operate a really great transit service that meets the community’s needs: fare-free, 24-hour service, more bus lines, and more.

When you press TriMet’s senior leadership to spend money in ways that they don’t support, the excuse is generally that “we have constrained resources dedicated to specific funds for specific purposes; we can’t spend capital construction funds on operations, and vice versa.”

Or, translating boss-ese to English: we can’t legally spend money the way the community wants; why are you mad at us when our hands our tied?

But when it comes to things like a $12 million transit jail, a $35 million investment in new fare cards nobody asked for, a new vanity MAX line to a well-off west side suburb, or whatever other shiny novelty management’s got its eye on, the money always seems to be there.

Or, at least, they know where to find it.

We need to let go of the myth that TriMet’s funding is heavily constrained, because it gives the company’s senior leadership an immediate out to say, “well, we can’t spend money on this major community priority, we don’t have the right kind of funding.” That’s nonsense; TriMet’s senior management isn’t a bumbling bureaucracy.

It’s acting deliberately, ideologically, against the public interest: TriMet bosses intentionally use “funding constraints” as an excuse to avoid justified criticism of their priorities as a company.

We need to reject the idea that these supposed limits are real and material; they do nothing more than obfuscate the fact that TriMet is a property development agency that operates buses as a side hustle.

Read the full essay here!

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Trimet board meeting testimonies

Trimet sock puppets meeting this wednesday

So lets see who's on the corporate Trimet welfare list this month.

Trimet Deacon in Blue examines the case of Jeff Roberts

Roberts has been with us 18 years, and all who know him describe him as a deeply caring, affectionate man. You can't operate in transit that long by being an asshole. He was suspended for four weeks while management considered his case. Mr. Roberts meanwhile, decided he enjoyed not being verbally assaulted while away from the job. After a long and safe career driving his fellow residents, he decided enough was enough.

https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2017/10/another-driver-pushed-under-bus.html?m=1