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TriMet Kudos from the City on the Bay
SPUR, a civic/planning organization in San Franciso has recently recognized TriMet’s Productivity Improvement Program (PIP), and urged their local transit agency to undertake a similar program. Hat tip to reader Garlynn Woodsong for the link.
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Designing the Transit Mall, Twenty Feet at a Time
A little whilte ago, the Daily Journal of Commerce ran a “conversation” with Tad Savinar, who is working on the streetscape design for the Transit Mall. The core of the conversation is the idea of looking at the Transit Mall in micro-increments, a single block face, or even a single store front. Savinar was kind…
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TriMet vs. Streetcar – NOT!
One of the sub-themes running through the Trib’s ReThinking Portland issue on transportation is the role and appropriateness of the Eastside Streetcar project (AKA the Streetcar Loop) and competition between Streetcar and other transit modes. Nick Budnick swears to me that he wasn’t trying to stir up a feud between TriMet and Streetcar (OK, I…
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Lucky Fred
In an interview in the Daily Journal of Commerce, TriMet General Manager Fred Hansen describes himself as: … one of the lucky ones because … I can take the (bus) without changing downtown. Fred talks about everything from Commuter Rail to The I-205 line to efficiency efforts at the agency.
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Security Dollars for Transit
The Portland Business Journal is reporting that Homeland Security has awarded $800K to TriMet and $150K to C-Tran for security. Anyone from TriMet reading out there who can tell us how it will get spent?