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Monday, April 21, 2014
Did you know that Joe Rose wrote 11 stories on that damn bridge?
▶ Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent
Stacy&Witbek was charged with corruption
In 1994, in a test of a new city policy aimed at cracking down on cheating contractors, city officials decided to ban Stacy & Witbeck from receiving any more city jobs for five years. The harsh sanction was the first of its kind, and still stands as the meanest punishment the city has ever imposed on one of its contractors. It was also costly, considering Stacy & Witbeck had garnered more than $150 million worth of work in San Francisco. The sanction was meant to send a message to all bidders for city work that there would be no boondoggles on then-Mayor Frank Jordan's watch, and it was certainly embarrassing for Stacy & Witbeck to be barred from bidding on municipal jobs in its own hometown.
The company fought the suspension all the way to the state Supreme Court. When that didn't work, it looked like Stacy & Witbeck would be out of the running for city jobs through the end of the millennium. But the salvation that was denied by the courts came with the election of Brown, whose administration decided to look more favorably on the company after it hired a close Brown ally as its lobbyist.
Greasing the Rails | SF Weekly
Sunday, April 20, 2014
It is a farce
#TriMet employee involvement committee? R these employees stupid or ASS KISSERS? Do the right thing and screw #TriMet pic.twitter.com/a4vCLCsY4F
— Daily Cyclist (@DailyCyclist) April 20, 2014Real lives of Trimet bus drivers
STOP THE BULLY
Again why not put some kind of initiative together to stop the transit bullies by pulling the rug out from under them and make it so they can't railroad ( no pun intended) the people anymore.
Trimet's latest invention
@trimet can someone explain how this bench works? Seems I'm not the only one confounded by it pic.twitter.com/vcLaiMkXA5
— Mary (@maryacunningham) April 20, 2014
@maryacunningham I read somewhere it was designed by the PoPo and #TriMet as the "Move Along Please Bench." #CompassionateUrbanDesign
— Ron (@TelemachusRome) April 20, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Tualatin following Tigard
Our City Our Vote!
This is a non-partisan effort to make sure Tualatin gets the kind
of transit and other transportation improvements that are genuinely
needed and supported by Tualatin residents and businesses.
We would like to be abundantly clear and avoid any need for clarification.
We would like to be abundantly clear and avoid any need for clarification.
RedLine nails it again
Breakin The Law, Breakin' The Law
It's how things roll in Porkland. Tricky Rick Gustafson has headed up the Porkland Streetcar thing since its inception, and it's been a perfect money-pot. But now that darned independent auditor, with her high-falutin' ethics, has got involved and ruined the fun.
A new city audit of Portland Streetcar says City Hall is breaking state law in how it allows the streetcar's private operator to control public money.
It really sucks when the goody-goody types get in the way of a great scam.Tricky Rick somehow managed to get his daughter on the board of the Portland Streetcar opreration, and announced after getting wind of the audit a few weeks ago that he'd be "retiring" as head of the scam operation. It's funny how that all just happened to come together.
It's an interesting little arrangement: Porkland ostensibly owns the tracks and streetcars, Porkland Streetcar runs the operation, and Tri-Met kicks in a few million a year to pay its drivers to pilot the streetcars around inner northwest, southwest, and northeast Porkland. The "system" might have as much as ten miles of tracks running down the auto lanes.
MaxRedline: Breakin The Law, Breakin' The Law
Why can't Trimet do this? TODAY?
Seattle can do it...why can't @trimet and @SWCorridor put these buses on the 12/94 TODAY?!! hybrid and high capacity pic.twitter.com/okGWIiF04f
— Erik Halstead (@sp_redelectric) April 19, 2014
Friday, April 18, 2014
TRIMET IS A MONEY MACHINE FOR ITS CONTRACTORS
It just astonishes me that Trimet so routinely allows every single contractor to go over budget and the puppet board routinely approves this farce.
Why do they bother even taking bids at Trimet?
They are NEVER accurate and always underestimated.
Coming up at next board meeting
And after the oligarchs get through handing away this $3 million dollars the following is left, who is gonna get it I wonder?
And even after the remaining $5.2 million is given away if anybody needs more they can have it
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| "owners reserve" |
(Funny how union members can't get the same treatment, nope, for them there is only cuts)
SAYS IT ALL
#TriMet management so proud they screwed the employees, retirees and public in the construction on their bridge. pic.twitter.com/uwW6CYEDew
— Daily Cyclist (@DailyCyclist) April 18, 2014BUSTED!
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| 39-year-old Efren Escarsega, Jr |
Escarsega’s arrest came “after a complicated and lengthy investigation into reports of forged passes in the past several months,” said TriMet spokeswoman Roberta Altstadt. “Officers used security cameras and footage, and conducted plainclothes and undercover missions to track down the suspected source of the fraudulent tickets.”
The Transit Response Team, formed in spring 2013 to conduct more in-depth missions with officers in both uniform and plainclothes, made the arrest.
Police served a search warrant on a unit at the Central City Concern’s Estate Motel, 225 N.W. Couch Street in downtown Portland. Investigators recovered a stack of stolen TriMet ticket stock and a monthly pass that they believe was used to make the fraudulent fares.
TriMet police bust man suspected of forging, dealing more than 1,000 fake tickets | OregonLive.com
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