Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Deconstructing the May Trimet board meeting-part 4

-Mcfarlane talks about the budget-
-Brookshire speaks in tongues-
-Prosser and Bauman prove they are 100% sock puppets-

From the Trimet Drivers side

Cage us. Demean us. Blame, suspend, discard and abuse us. This is the new transit agency human relations strategy. We cannot simultaneously drive safely, remain on schedule, provide exemplary customer service, AND physically or emotionally protect every person who rides with us. It's inhuman and foolish to expect anyone to live up to this irrational set of standards.

https://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2017/05/its-drivers-fault-of-course.html?m=1

Monday, May 29, 2017

Trimet Deacon in Blue on the Trimet horror

http://fromthedriverside.blogspot.com/2017/05/tragedy-in-heroism.html?m=1

Lane Jensen went through the scanner files and found more clips of the Trimet Murderer

Lanes into baseball these days

Deconstructing the May Trimet board meeting-part 3K

Kelsey talks about changing Trimet culture-Lehto talks about future goals-Mcfarlane talks about bills in the legislature- Sapporta doesn't say much of anything

"I am grateful for our partners at Transit police for their rapid response and arrest of the suspect"

Well guess what?

If it hadn't been for several MAX riders following the guy and keeping an eye on him the cops probably never would have found him!

Mcfarlane is constantly pumping up the police state presence in our lives.

Its also interesting that after all this hub-bub over this Police bunker that Trimet is building and the board of directors bragging about the system being so safe because of the
extra police there were 2 separate stabbings on the system in a week.

Watch the arrest below the break

Double murder on Trimet

http://koin.com/2017/05/26/one-dead-in-stabbing-near-hollywood-tc/

Deconstructing the May Trimet board meeting-part 2B

Bethel lectures the anti police speakers-Mcfarlane doesn't have much to say-Kelsey with his usual fast talking performance report

Portland: Police to the @trimet 42nd Avenue Transit Station for a reported stabbing, 2 people stabbed, 1 in the neck. #AvoidTheArea
— Portland OR Alerts (@pdxalerts) May 26, 2017

Just in case you didn't know who's interests the Trimet board represents

In case you didn't know where the #trimet board loyalties lie-it's not the public

End patronage transit boards

Give citizens a voice pic.twitter.com/EqTaiuCaSg
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) May 26, 2017

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Deconstructing the Trimet May board meeting-part 1

Warner says he agrees with the protesters

I've been watching these board meetings a long time now and I've got to say I've never seen a more articulate well thought out group of activists speak on the injustice that is carried out by Trimet.

Alas, it was all for nothing, of course. I understand how government works. All the elections, public hearings, surveys, etc are nothing but a fraud. Government is controlled by an elite group of people and the citizens have no input whatsoever into the final policy.

Trimet is government, and it functions like government. It's controlled by the elites. They care not what citizens think

Jim Howell at Todays board meeting

Mr Howell is the most senior activist in the Trimet activist scene.

He's now 84 and still going strong with his great ideas.

OPAL gets a nice turnout for today's Trimet board meeting

I'm very happy to see that the citizens of the Portland area care enough about their transit system to show up at a pivotal meeting. I was giving up any hope of actually seeing citizens caring at all about Trimet issues.
Of course it didn't impact the board of sock puppets.
They dutifully did their sock puppet thing and passed all the resolutions that Mcfarlane wanted.
We know that the citizens have no influence in the affairs of government.

Standing room only at @trimet board meeting protesting transit jail facility. Good job @OPALEJOR turning out the community #equity #LIFE pic.twitter.com/Bn4uTo87qL
— sarah iannarone (@sarahforpdx) May 24, 2017

Jim Howell

Read his Willamette Week essay here!

Trimet cash machine will be handing out the pork today

As we all know (except the governor apparently) Trimet is an independent tax farm (aka Kingdom) currently ruled by Neil Mcfarlane who holds virtually all the power in deciding who gets the tax payer funds that are stolen from the citizens for the advantage of various insiders, businesses, cronies etc etc.

Of course Trimet pretends its all about the citizens, just like every tax farm does.

The facade is the most vital aspect of government today.

So lets see who's on Trimet's MOST FAVORED LIST for today's handouts

Trimet continues its practice of stealing employees time

In our class action lawsuit we sued Trimet for not paying wages for time that we spent getting to road reliefs and not time slipping at end of shift among other things.

Trimet transportation distinct has developed this very bad habit of stealing operators time in multiple ways. The latest theft of time is the new HOP pass.

Trimet required all operators to get new pictures on the operators time.

Now Trimet is requiring operators to pick up the new passes on their own time rather than putting them in the company Mail.

This sort of behavior is unconscionable and should not go unchallenged. The Trimet executive class all received races of at least 3%. Trimet union employees got zero. And now they want active employees to spend their own time Dealing with this new HOP pass. Employees are required to have new passes by July 1st or they will be locked out of the garages as the old passes will be deactivated.

Trimet dispatch/control

Kate Brown can't sell Trimet

Personally I think she should be impeached for intentionally misleading the public

2015 ORS 267.200¹

A mass transit district shall constitute a municipal corporation of this state, and a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public power. It shall be considered a unit of local government for the purposes of ORS 190.003 (Definition for ORS 190.003 to 190.130) to 190.130 (Effect of ORS 190.125), a public employer for the purposes of ORS 236.610 (Rights of employee when duties assumed by different public employer) to 236.640 (Reemployment right of employee at end of cooperation agreement), and a political subdivision for the purposes of ORS 305.620 (Collection and distribution of local taxes on income and sales). A district and its contractors engaged in operating motor vehicles to provide mass transportation on behalf of the district shall be entitled to tax refunds as allowed under ORS 319.831 (Refund of tax on fuel used in operation of vehicle over certain roads or private property) to incorporated cities. It shall have full power to carry out the objects of its formation and to that end may: