TriMet MAX ticket machine documentary: Fare is Fair?

Posted by Christian in Public Transportation Culture on Jan 13th, 2009 | 3 comments

Bob over at Portland Transport (one of the best Portland public transportation blogs out there) gave me a heads up of a new documentary that Matt Davis from the Portland Mercury and himself made about this ongoing MAX ticket machine problem.  The Portland Mercury Blogtown post with the video is here, along with some commentary from Matt himself.

Bob contacted Mary Fetsch, TriMet’s Spokesperson, asking if the ticket machine situation has improved and linked her to the video.

You can go to the Portland Mercury Blogtown page to view the video or watch it below:

Keep an eye out on the Portland Mercury page to see if Mary indeed does respond to the video.  Kudos to Bob Richardson of Portland Transport and Matt Davis from the Merc – great video guys!



3 Responses to “ “TriMet MAX ticket machine documentary: Fare is Fair?”

  1. Adron says:
    January 16, 2009 at 12:12 am

    That was a laugh a minute. In the serious irony stricken way that life hits ya sometimes.

    It would be nice if they could get those machines working better. It’s not like we don’t have high rates of success, it just seems TriMet has a rather broken fare system, and the machines to go with it.

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  2. 19 Rider says:
    January 20, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    As a person who buys a monthly pass, I find it very “unfare” that most Max riders don’t pay anything. Also Tri-met hasn’t lowered our fares even though the price of oil is now $35 per barrel vs $147 when they raised the fares (and used the price of oil as the reason for the increase)

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  3. indy says:
    January 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    I don’t mean to be classist, but they did go through the poorest part of town… :(

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