tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829739472510471783.post6450020710626026180..comments2022-02-21T22:58:20.851-08:00Comments on The Kid's Take: Portland Transit Activism from the Bottom Up.: Positives from Negatives- A Paper On Improving the Reconfiguring Route PlanCameron Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12059114435462086719noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829739472510471783.post-66660272378892559002012-02-19T16:18:48.619-08:002012-02-19T16:18:48.619-08:00Exactly, and I agree. I'm bitter too, but when...Exactly, and I agree. I'm bitter too, but when I get bitter I make some attempt to do what I do best. Which is to write a paper like this and hope for the best.Cameron Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059114435462086719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829739472510471783.post-52885159438657208392012-02-19T14:10:01.090-08:002012-02-19T14:10:01.090-08:00Al said best what i was trying to say. It's ha...Al said best what i was trying to say. It's hard not to get really bitter towards TriMet at this point. Especially knowing all we do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829739472510471783.post-43855193176069547302012-02-19T11:25:20.103-08:002012-02-19T11:25:20.103-08:00You did a lot of work on this Cameron, did you sub...You did a lot of work on this Cameron, did you submit it to Trimet via an 'official' method?<br /><br />If you don't use an 'official' method they ignore you.<br /><br />Even if you do use an 'official' method they still are highly unlikely to actually implement idea's that are not their own.<br /><br />Jason Mchuff submitted a video to Macfarlane, who actually responded to him, but does that mean any of his idea's will be taken seriously?<br /><br />I've gotten very bitter about TriMet management and their utter arrogance "we know what's best for you" nonsense.<br /><br />I've given up trying to be reasonable with them, they are not reasonable people in charge now.Al Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06670275801784105978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829739472510471783.post-29135012930483459952012-02-19T10:51:32.665-08:002012-02-19T10:51:32.665-08:00Personally, I don't think of it as much of a w...Personally, I don't think of it as much of a waste of time either way, although I definitely hope for the best. I enjoyed writing this.Cameron Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059114435462086719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829739472510471783.post-80126868481499473322012-02-19T09:16:02.825-08:002012-02-19T09:16:02.825-08:00Hum? Well i'll ignore that....
i just dont get...Hum? Well i'll ignore that....<br />i just dont get why you would put so much time into something where trimet will probably just send it straight to the shredderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829739472510471783.post-49747354685561950362012-02-19T00:00:22.674-08:002012-02-19T00:00:22.674-08:00Thanks for the edits. As for the pessimism, it'...Thanks for the edits. As for the pessimism, it's well founded given TriMet's track record. I can't really make much of it, but I did surprise the scheduling department leader at one of the open houses with my off-the-top-of-my-head ideas, which she liked. And since I already typed it up, I may as well send it.Cameron Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059114435462086719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4829739472510471783.post-51328638869308778752012-02-18T23:41:48.378-08:002012-02-18T23:41:48.378-08:00“On weekends, when line 10 doesn’t run, line 16 wo...“On weekends, when line 10 doesn’t run, line 16 would simply U-turn around SW Clay from 5th back onto 6th. This route would be called 16 (or 10)-Harold/St. Helens Rd.”<br /><br />Why doesn’t the 10 just get to run (if what you are proposing is to combine the routes) on weekends as well? Also, later through the proposal, the 16/10/40 thing gets pretty confusing. <br /><br />“Seeing as this is a transit dependent neighborhood, such cuts need to be looked at in order to make sure we are not leaving transit riders high and dry.”<br /><br />Looked at how?<br /><br />“…line 4 of C-Tran will provide a transfer to MAX Yellow Line from Jantzen Beach and back again, and as long as C-Tran fares work on TriMet’s service…”<br /><br />C-Tran fares do work on TriMet and vice versa: http://trimet.org/fares/transfers.htm<br /><br /> “The idea is a good one..”<br />Don’t write stuff like that. It’ll place less importance on the other ideas and gives the reader the sense that you don’t think your other ideas are any good, but that they’re just there, among other reasons. But now it is late. I don’t think I wrote that very coherently, but you get the gist, right?<br /><br /><br />Anyways, nice ideas bud, but trying to talk sense into TriMet is like trying to talk sense into the devil—it simply doesn’t work. You know me. I want things to change. But it’s hard to believe anything is going to change by putting a lot of time into writing stuff like this, sending it to TriMet and hoping. You know as well as I do that the chance of TriMet actually changing something because of this is about 1 in a trillion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com