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Where to go with Bus Technology
A number of things have been happening with the development of bus transit technology available in the United States in the past decade. We’ve seen: Widespread deployment of Diesel-electric hybrid buses in cities such as New York and Seattle British-style double-decker buses on the Las Vegas Strip and now being evaluated in San Francisco Special…
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Columbia River Crossing: Transit in a Box
Today’s Columbian features an article on how CRC engineers may place the transit component inside the bridge structure, reducing materials costs by not requiring wider spans or an additional span for transit. If a Box Girder construction method is used, there could be sufficient room for transit lanes (and emergency evacuation for pedestrians) within the…
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Mercury Blog: Fred Hansen Announces Proposals for Increased Security
The Mercury’s Blogtown PDX has a post about Fred Hansen’s appearance at the City Club, speaking about MAX security. Check out the entire post for all the details. Based on that article, Fred’s proposals appear to boil down to: Increasing the Transit Police Division staff by 10 percent. Increasing fare inspections by giving Wackenhut staff…
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Hillsboro Argus / Oregonian Blog Entry on today’s Transit Safety Summit
Menacing behavior and disorderly conduct are more persistent public safety concerns on the region’s light rail system than the threat of violence on board, Gresham leaders and Portland police officials told the TriMet transit agency Thursday. But there are too few police officers on the light rail system to deter or interrupt threatening behavior that…
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Follow-Up: Police presence on MAX
The Gresham Outlook has a new article about the increased police presence on MAX in the Gresham area. The full article details the efforts of police and the reaction of the riders. The end of the article provides 3 weeks’ worth of statistics, the first of which I’ll excerpt here: Week one: Nov. 7-12 800…