Last run for the 17
The last Tri-Met buses have run up and down NE 24th Avenue. They'll be gone for a long time, maybe forever.
The last Tri-Met buses have run up and down NE 24th Avenue. They'll be gone for a long time, maybe forever.
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TriMet complains ridership is down, so they cuts routes...
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the "Socialists" on the City Council have chosen to support the private-company "rideshare" businesses...
They are not the same service. Nobody wants mass transit any more, and so that service is left to those who have no other option. Tri-Met worked best when everybody used it, but that era ended when Portland stopped being a little white-bread, safe, clean town.
DeleteAnd the dumpster fire the made their downtown hub an empty
DeletePoint taken ("They are not the same service.").
DeleteHowever, it was up to TriMet to adjust to the changing times. Metro & other publicly-funded agencies/orgs do research & forecasting on coming changes/trends. Whether the service providers use their conclusions to guide their planning is frequently the problem (as we've also seen with the agencies who are supposed to work-out how to everybody housed).
Other cities have figured it out & have robust public transportation systems. We could have too, under completely-different 'leadership'.
Meanwhile, PBOT is creating bus-only lanes on major through-routes in the city. In my neighborhood, Montavilla, they took out a lane on Washington St--I have yet to see a #15 bus (or any bikes) in that lane. Same is about to happen on Glisan. And then there's 82d, the only north-south route (minus the 205) on the east side...one single "quieted" lane on tap.
ReplyDeleteOne big problem with "quieted" lanes is that they are very crowded, so turning into the lanes means a very long wait--and crossing them is a
...an exercise in dodge-em. PBOT hates cars. Drivers hate PBOT.
DeleteThe Tri-Met board and officers have been hideous for a long while now (I'm talking decades). At one point, state law provided that Metro could take over Tri-Met. If that's still true, it could be time for it to happen, although I'd rather see the city and county merge and have Metro disbanded. There are too many unsupervised pots of tax money siting around for plunder.
ReplyDeleteIf Goldschmidt were governor now, there would definitely be some circles and arrows going onto the organization chart, with plenty of dough rolling off to him and his pals as part of a restructuring. But his day is long gone. In reality, all we have calling the shots now are the bureaucrat unions, who have sucked the place dry.
Hear hear.
DeleteNeal kinda set the tone.
DeleteBoo
ReplyDeleteIt might have gone better if Metro had just stuck to their original mandate (garbage & greenspaces), but I do understand the feeling that's it's become a redundant layer of local govt.
DeleteAnd yeah, I had once looked-up all the email addresses for the entire Trimet Board (all corporate titans & other dignitaries), and sent them my assessment of TriMet's paratransit services. It lit a fire for-a-minute. Nothing changed.