Archive for August, 2009
Free rides for all (high school students)
Just saw that our mayor just tweeted that the City Council has approved free transit passes for 14k Portland Public School students in grade 9 - 12. You can read about this here. This allows all PPS students from grade 9 - 12 to ride the MAX, bus or streetcar for free from September 1st […]
Fareless Square to go rail-only fareless in January 2010
Fareless Square will be going fareless rail-only effective Sunday January 3, 2010. This means no more fareless rides for bus service in the Fareless Square. TriMet reports that 51% of public opinion supported the cut for free bus service.
OregonLive reports that there was one dissenting vote:
“Lynn Lehrbach, of eastern Multnomah County, was the lone dissenter […]
Thank you!
Dear Trimet and the Powers That Be–
This is Mrs. Trimetiquette speaking. Officially. I’ve been behind the scenes mostly, calmly and unconditionally supporting my husband in his quest for decency, courtesy, and common sense when it comes to public transportation here in Portland. But I’ve had enough of Christian taking all my ideas and posting them […]
TriMet bringing sexy back with new trains this Thursday
Indeed, TriMet is bringing “sexy back” by unleashing six of the 22 new Type 4 MAX trains into regular service. You’ve no doubt seen those big, beautiful trains running test runs on the tracks. Well, I’m here to tell you that you might be riding on one of those bad boys this Thursday, August 6.
Joseph […]
Nice new blog ranting about C-TRAN
The author of the blog Rantings of a Regular C-Tran Rider left me a note asking if I could take a look and let readers know about the blog. It looks as if, yep, this blog definitely is all about ranting on C-TRAN.
In the spirit of sharing the blog to all of you, here’s my […]