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Human Transit Takes Exception to OPAL’s Strategy
Jarrett has an interesting take on what benefits transit riders who are cash-poor, time-poor or both.
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Orange Line Sighting
Guest contributor David Brandt is a regular reader. Earlier this year there was discussion on this blog about how TriMet would designate and serve the new Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail line (see “TriMet Confirms That Orange Line Will Go Through Downtown After All, But Details Still Unclear, April 17, 2013″). A clue has recently appeared that…
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Eleven Reasons Portland Transport readers should come to the 2013 Weston Awards.
Hey, folks! My name is Aaron Brown, and I’m currently serving as Board President of Oregon Walks, the state’s pedestrian advocacy organization that’s been busy working to make streets safer for walking in the state since 1991. I’ll ask you to please excuse my remarkably obnoxious, buzzfeedesque title and format of this article, but I really wanted to…
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OPAL’s Pitch to TriMet
OPAL (Organizing People Activating Leaders), the parent organization of Bus Riders Unite, will be making it’s case tomorrow before the TriMet board for its “Campaign for a Fair Transfer”. The campaign, which would extend transfer times as a mitigation for reduced frequency has been a major equity push for the organization. Here is their proposal…
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TriMet Takes $10 Million Hit from ERB, Claims Victory
Both ATU and TriMet appear to be claiming victory in in the recent ruling by the Oregon Employee relations board. It would appear that TriMet does indeed get the contract imposed by the arbitrator (good news), but cannot collect retroactive health-care contributions from employees (bad news) and must refund some contributions (more bad news). TriMet’s…