Portland Transport

Category: Bus

  • Buses to return to transit mall; Public input on routes sought.

    As mentioned in the open thread, TriMet has now released it’s preliminary plans for returning buses to the Transit Mall. A series of public meetings will be held to gather input from riders. For full details, visit: http://www.trimet.org/meetings/portlandmall/index.htm A compilation of the comments from the open thread follows the break:

  • Students at Franklin and Jefferson Will Ride TriMet for Free

    Scaled down from the original request to pilot all Portland Public Schools students from grades 6-12, the Multnomah Youth Commission has gotten buy-in from the City of Portland and TriMet to allow student ids at Franklin and Jefferson to function as TriMet passes. The program will expand to other schools in 2009.

  • Getting to Seattle, One Transit System at a Time

    A request from a reader: This post recently came across the Couchsurfing.com forums: Hi folks, I’ve heard that it is possible to get from Portland to at least Seattle just by taking city & county buses – have any of you done it? I can see how to get from here to the north side…

  • Trouble with One Wheel on Four Wheels?

    I’ve gotten word from the unicycle community (yes, Portland has a unicycle community) that TriMet is apparently cracking down on allowing folks to take their one-wheeled rides onto buses with them. Unicycle riders, can you confirm? Anyone from TriMet care to enlighten us on what office policy is?

  • TriMet Pilots New Interactive Map

    TriMet is now in beta-test on a new interactive system map. For now it’s Firefox-only :-)