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The Case for Distance-based Fares
A piece on Streetsblog makes the policy argument for distance-based transit fares. They actually use Portland’s Fareless Square as part of their argument, apparently unaware of recent history. I generally support this line of argument, at least from a pure policy policy point of view. TriMet has argued that one of the pragmatic reasons for…
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Guest Post: Community Transit Double Tall Buses After One Year
This is a guest post from regular contributor Ron Swaren. Anyone who wishes to submit a guest post is welcome to contact the moderators and we will be happy to assist you. Photograph by Takeshita kenji, courtesy of Wikipedia. Released under the GNU Free Documentation License (CC-BY-3.0). Click on picture for a larger image. Community…
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All-door Boarding and Fare Evasion
Jarrett Walker has a post over on Human Transit about all-door boarding being added to buses in San Francisco. He makes the point that the perception of fare evasion is often much worse than the reality. I’ve experienced that many times over the years in discussions of streetcar fare policy. The honor system means that…
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We’re Number 10!
Transit service is a painful topic right now, but we might want to take a second to remember that relative to a lot of other places, we’re still in a pretty good place (but will never be complacent). The good folks at WalkScore have released a ranking of major metros by their aggregate TransitScore –…
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Digging Into TriMet’s Proposed Service Changes: Washington County Edition
Last month, Zef covered in detail TriMet’s proposed service changes to both NE and NW Portland. (He also had some additional thoughts on the cuts as a whole over at Portland Afoot, see also here). Zef is unfamiliar with Washington County, so we agreed that I would do the article about the proposed changes affecting…