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Transit Appliance Gets Some Notice – Time for a New Name?
I’ve been pleased to see that the posts on this site and on StreetFilms about the Transit Appliance have been retweeted and syndicated, bouncing around the net for a few days. And yesterday it got some love on the PDXCommute blog. I also had a chance to show it off at GOSCON (Government Open Source…
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TriMet Considers Even More Borrowing for Milwaukie
Back in May I complained that TriMet was getting ready to borrow $39M to fund the new Milwaukie line. This borrowing would be paid back with future payroll tax revenues – funds that could otherwise be spent actually providing service hours. Now Portland Afoot is reporting that TriMet may consider raising this amount to $60M…
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TriMet and the Trust Gap Part 3: The Planning Role
Today, TriMet held an informal planning session, at which point it was announced that in order to fund MLR, an additional $20 million of operating revenue may be needed to build Milwaukie MAX, as reported by Michael at PortlandAfoot.org. A key word is “may”. This column address a broader issue; that of TriMet’s role in…
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“State of Good Repair”
This was a phrase I heard a lot at RailVolution last week. It came up on several panels and was an interesting contrast: we heard it mostly from folks in the East/Midwest operating long-established rail systems. We didn’t hear it from the West Coast cities where rail transit is still running on pretty new infrastructure.…