RANTINGS OF A FORMER TRIMET BUS DRIVER

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Historical Trimet

And nothing has actually changed

https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/1145103009023758336?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/1145103701574656001?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/1145104320045694977?s=21
https://twitter.com/alyourpalster/status/1145104839401230336?s=21

Good old days

TriMet employee retired early...https://t.co/Pp1IVDjSCh
— jimmy alto (@jimmyalto) June 28, 2019

Friday, June 21, 2019

Sock puppets and pork barrel meeting Wednesday

Classic Trimet tweets

pic.twitter.com/a6X2PeLvIk
— ChaCha (@Annallamallama) June 20, 2019

Thursday, June 20, 2019

My first 6 months as a trimet bus driver

From a post on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/c2eee6/my_first_6_months_as_a_trimet_bus_operator_part_1/

#NealBerlin #trimet pic.twitter.com/MMt5qkVYx8
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) June 20, 2019

Saturday, June 8, 2019

Trimet fail

How is it that Winnipeg can put safety shield on all of their buses within a year but Trimet can’t. https://t.co/OPT8aAaN4E
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) June 8, 2019

Friday, June 7, 2019

One of my classic videos from 10 years ago

And not a damn thing has changed. It was 3 years from when I filmed this video and was ‘forced’ to retire

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SnefYtyua4M
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Kj1rQ0fB0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3nzJBRM_u8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Kj1rQ0fB0

The next clip is the best in this series
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pL_TkdDJrSE

Thursday, June 6, 2019

https://www.oregonmetro.gov/public-projects/southwest-corridor-plan/light-rail-planning

Your taxpayers dollars are paying for this PR campaign so that you vote for the proposed 2020 bond measure that will if passed will send your property tax bill to new high! This entire report is “FAKE NEWS” on so many levels that one must think all creating this report must be smoking some good pot or they have vested interest in getting into your wallet; maybe both! TriMet is under Metro, who care less about facts that contradict TriMet statistics. The agenda of pushing this folly is (approximately$300BILLION) is just getting started. Just note that most all the officials who are for this do NOT ride or use public transportation. Their guiding principle can summed up in the following sentence “Mass transit is for the other guy so I can drive my car faster.” Eric Severeid said this over 40 years ago and it is still true today. So it goes... Two Bells.

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Ross Wrede IS the bicycling champion of Trimet employees

Ross Wrede champion Trimet bicyclist who blows all the other Trimet employees OUT OF THE WATER! 🥇 pic.twitter.com/Y8pmlWUtZT
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) June 4, 2019

What the hell is this? https://t.co/bLAZMmsnWu
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) June 4, 2019

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Rest In Peace James Pinkard

Rest In Peace James Pinkard former Trimet driver and good pal of mine pic.twitter.com/p4aLVVT3lK
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) June 2, 2019

Saturday, June 1, 2019

I do feel better

Feel better? https://t.co/9AsBkOABpj pic.twitter.com/MlXtMxzfl7
— Belief Beyond Reason (@ErikPtfc) May 31, 2019

Friday, May 31, 2019

Cancelled bus runs report last 6 months

https://app.box.com/s/lyrbr9ldj65g1o5cyoqnifhb0rfeevc2

Japanese bus drivers on Strike

Bus drivers in Japan went on a strike but continued to drive their routes while refusing fares - therefore not hurting the passengers but the companies. How very Japanese ❤ pic.twitter.com/cZmsXcxGoB
— ION 👀 (@ionlands) May 30, 2019

Neal Berlin

I just wonder how much money TriMet has already has spent on the SW Corridor Project ( $300 Billion estimated final cost)? The big difference between the this article and Trimet has NOT received a public vote to proceed with construction. This has not stopped or even slowed TriMet to keep moving ahead with project even though public testimony has shown using TriMets own statistics that estimates of potential ridership is not even close to reality. Those people and facts have been dismissed with distain as nothing more as a bunch of college school kids doing an some kind of science project. One thing this taxpayer also wonders about and would like a answer is how much money is being spent by TriMet Public Relations Department to support the 2020 Bond measure to pay for this fiasco. Both of these questions may be asked but will in all probably will never be answered. The bill will be sent via an enormous increase in property taxes,not itemize, if it passes. So it goes... Two Bells.
http://www.wral.com/some-taxpayers-unhappy-that-light-rail-cost-is-still-rising/18418748/

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Trimet vs MBTA, apples and oranges

Trimet is puny by comparison pic.twitter.com/cn3sE0e8dB
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) May 29, 2019

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Bambi is dead

Light rail KILLS EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH. Including Bambi and her beloved child 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌 https://t.co/NR3GXPmuSZ
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) May 29, 2019

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Excellent essay on bus drivers

https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/James-Walker-Drivers-Bus-operators-could-use-a-13867145.php

I can’t remember a time when public transportation wasn’t part of my life.

I have boarded public buses from here to Seattle, and dozens of towns and cities in between

For more decades than I care to count, public transportation has gotten me where I needed to go, and it is cheap. In my book, that is a winning combination.

But I have seen many changes and, in more ways than one, public transportation has become an unpleasant, grin-and-bear-it experience for the riding public.

Neal Berlin on the murder of HART transit operator

This press conference sounds like they took ALL the talking points from the last 18 plus years from the TriMet PR Department (Portland,Oregon transit agency) and spewed it out with the same monotone sincerity that top Management have mastered that rank and file recognize as BS! We in Portland had two passengers killed in the past 18 months and assaults on operators,supervisors and other company personnel is at all time high, and still going higher. The response from Management and its Board is we will be gathering more static’s and will get back to everyone soon with a plan. I wonder if a another tragic death occurs will while they are on one of their days off will they wait until Monday to respond? I bet Vegas would not take that bet. So it goes... Two Bells.
https://youtu.be/KWLW41Kryw8

Friday, May 24, 2019

TriMet payroll

Well here it is. Fast to! The entire list of all trimet employees and their payhttps://t.co/N0D8LapKmY
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) May 24, 2019

Classic tweets!

pic.twitter.com/qm2jshg6OE
— PDXh0b0 (@ap0stl3z) March 7, 2019

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

If you get killed or injured on trimet your only worth 2 years of Kelsey’s salary

And it won’t matter who’s fault it is either

Just remember if you get killed or injured on Trimet you will be shit out of luck

‘Your’ government at work

FUCKING AND OPPRESSING YOU https://t.co/JpSVko4gHo
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) May 22, 2019

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Poop Scoop news on the Trimet barber

Poop Scoop news is communicating with the ‘Trimet barber’ (Jarred Walter) https://t.co/sh8b8x9L55 via @YouTube @scritchie32 @TriMetBarber @sp_redelectric #trimet
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) May 19, 2019

Friday, May 17, 2019

The city of Portland is actually putting in some bus lanes thanks to Alan Kessler

See BIKE PORTLAND for details. Alan Kessler deserves recognition for being the driving force behind it

Congratulations to @alankesslr (Alan Kessler) also. I’ve been following his work since the very beginning. pic.twitter.com/a3vuPmNnZw
— AL M (@AlYourPalster) May 17, 2019

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Trimet latest hair brained scheme

Here, al. You can use this pic.twitter.com/kWyAHeU99s
— TriMet Bus Fan  (@trimetbusfan) May 17, 2019

Trimess