Submitted by Annie Hayes on Mon, 12/10/2007 - 3:45pm.
I love my home in St. Johns. And, I love my job in Beaverton.
So to get from Point A to Point B. I take two buses. 44 and 43.
In the morning leaving around 6am. I arrive at my office about 7:30am
Coming home is another story. Repeating the same route takes
me twice as long.
Why? The bottleneck downtown. From about Hamilton to the
Rose Garden. The Fareless Square area has become the useless Sqaure.
I do not believe this will improve after 2009.
So, can someone please have a realistic conversation with the riders
on the system, via online questionaires. Every scheduler at Tri-Met should
be riding the bus. The present schedule is unrealistic.
Not allowing for driver breaks when traffic is snarled
puts us all at risk. Ask commuters living and working in outlying areas that are forced to commute through the downtown corridor what changes they would make to alter the situation.
Lastly, While Fred Thompson is making Tri-met Safer, can he make it
a riders rights law for the drivers to follow.
1. limit how many large oversized baby strollers can be on one bus at a time. Its not fair to seniors or disabled riders to get on a bus where there are small children and mothers with big strollers occupying the front row of seats.
2. Do not displace a senior citizen /or disabled person on the bus for a wheelchair / scooter round.. or two wheelchairs and scooters.
Asking them to move to the back of the bus is reverse discrimination.
And, may injure them as they ride or try to depart the bus.
3. Travelers and visitors judge us by how clean and safe our city is.
Transportation should reflect this. When I get on a bus that smells
of bodily fluids because someone who was on the bus was drunk,
homeless or " a naturalist in body smells" I want to vomit.
Can you imagine what our out of town guests think?
If you plan to be with civilized people be prepared to clean up your act.
4. Please add transit tracker to all outlying bus lines so when we call
we can identify the bus stop number to the system.
5. Increase the # buses at TC later in the evening and morning hours
when there are special events or concerts downtown.
Especially around the big holidays and summer weekends so people are not
forced to drive and park downtown.
6. Safety first. I do not want to see a driver on a cell phone. not while they are driving.
And, to all the drivers who I have had the pleasure of meeting.
I say thankyou to you for your care and driving abilities.
You have made the long commute
more enjoyable. Especially Arvie. Number 43 4pm run.
commuters
I love my home in St. Johns. And, I love my job in Beaverton.
So to get from Point A to Point B. I take two buses. 44 and 43.
In the morning leaving around 6am. I arrive at my office about 7:30am
Coming home is another story. Repeating the same route takes
me twice as long.
Why? The bottleneck downtown. From about Hamilton to the
Rose Garden. The Fareless Square area has become the useless Sqaure.
I do not believe this will improve after 2009.
So, can someone please have a realistic conversation with the riders
on the system, via online questionaires. Every scheduler at Tri-Met should
be riding the bus. The present schedule is unrealistic.
Not allowing for driver breaks when traffic is snarled
puts us all at risk. Ask commuters living and working in outlying areas that are forced to commute through the downtown corridor what changes they would make to alter the situation.
Lastly, While Fred Thompson is making Tri-met Safer, can he make it
a riders rights law for the drivers to follow.
1. limit how many large oversized baby strollers can be on one bus at a time. Its not fair to seniors or disabled riders to get on a bus where there are small children and mothers with big strollers occupying the front row of seats.
2. Do not displace a senior citizen /or disabled person on the bus for a wheelchair / scooter round.. or two wheelchairs and scooters.
Asking them to move to the back of the bus is reverse discrimination.
And, may injure them as they ride or try to depart the bus.
3. Travelers and visitors judge us by how clean and safe our city is.
Transportation should reflect this. When I get on a bus that smells
of bodily fluids because someone who was on the bus was drunk,
homeless or " a naturalist in body smells" I want to vomit.
Can you imagine what our out of town guests think?
If you plan to be with civilized people be prepared to clean up your act.
4. Please add transit tracker to all outlying bus lines so when we call
we can identify the bus stop number to the system.
5. Increase the # buses at TC later in the evening and morning hours
when there are special events or concerts downtown.
Especially around the big holidays and summer weekends so people are not
forced to drive and park downtown.
6. Safety first. I do not want to see a driver on a cell phone. not while they are driving.
And, to all the drivers who I have had the pleasure of meeting.
I say thankyou to you for your care and driving abilities.
You have made the long commute
more enjoyable. Especially Arvie. Number 43 4pm run.