Has the MAX become too accessible in downtown Portland? According to TriMet data, there may be a surplus of MAX stations in the city’s inner limits—and its bogging down the transit system’s efficiency ...
The Portland Mercury: TriMet Wants Your Thoughts on Police and Security on Transit
Changes to security and police presence on public transit could be in Portland’s future, judging by a survey TriMet is currently asking its riders to complete. Last month, TriMet passed an annual ...
Seeking Alpha: Instacart and TriMet Pilot Program Expands Access and Independence for Older Adults and Riders with Disabilities, While Saving Millions for the Transit Agency
Instacart and TriMet Pilot Program Expands Access and Independence for Older Adults and Riders with Disabilities, While Saving Millions for the Transit Agency
Oregon’s largest transit agency will reduce bus service on a handful of routes beginning Sunday. This is the first of three service cuts that Portland metro area’s TriMet expects to make over the next ...
The Portland Mercury: Transit Rider Advocates Question Training Process for New TriMet Safety Team
I’m a senior who rides TriMet almost every day, and I want to encourage more Portlanders to give our transit system another look, (“ Portland’s transit exodus: Where did 30 million TriMet riders ...
OPB: Portland police rejoin TriMet’s transit police for the first time since 2020
Portland police rejoin TriMet’s transit police for the first time since 2020
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Nearly five years after the City of Portland and TriMet ended their partnership, TriMet is once again adding PPB officers to the transit police division, city officials ...
About TriMet TriMet is a public transportation provider that serves the Portland area. TriMet operates the following transit modes across the Portland area: max light rail, commuter rail, streetcar, aerial tram and bus. In total, TriMet operates 5 max light rail lines, 1 commuter rail line, 3 streetcar lines, 1 aerial tram line and 79 bus lines. TriMet serves 6,351 stops or stations in the ...
KGW8: Portland Police return to TriMet’s Transit Police Division after pulling out in 2020
PORTLAND, Ore. — TriMet and the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that the Portland Police Bureau is rejoining the region’s Transit Police Division, four years after the city pulled ...
Portland Police return to TriMet’s Transit Police Division after pulling out in 2020
It’s the end of the line for TriMet’s oldest MAX trains. On Saturday, April 18, transit fans came to Holladay Park to bid farewell to one of Portland’s oldest forms of public transportation. Attendees ...
KOIN on MSN: Transit upgrades underway near Portland’s incoming James Beard Public Market
KPTV on MSN: Hundreds attend goodbye party in Portland for TriMet’s oldest MAX trains
Fox 12 Oregon: Riders say TriMet service cuts could disrupt life for families who depend on transit
BEAVERTON Ore. (KPTV) - TriMet began reducing bus service Sunday evening on five lines across the metro area, the first planned cuts to address a $300 million budget gap. The transit agency reduced ...
Riders say TriMet service cuts could disrupt life for families who depend on transit
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As TriMet grapples with financial struggles, service changes are set to take effect starting this Sunday. The cuts, aimed at addressing a $300 million annual budget gap, will ...
KGW8: Portland metro partygoers offered free public transit, reduced rideshare prices on New Year's Eve
PORTLAND, Ore. — Getting home safely this New Year's Eve will be easy, cheap or even free of charge in the Portland metro area, thanks to a big push from local transit officials in recent years to ...
Portland metro partygoers offered free public transit, reduced rideshare prices on New Year's Eve
This story has been updated to clarify the sources of payroll tax revenue TriMet receives. TriMet is facing a $300 million budget gap, and it’s unclear when—or if—the public transit agency can expect ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Ahead of a TriMet Board of Directors meeting later this week, several groups have pushed leaders to consider varying updates to one of Portland’s most dangerous corridors. As ...
Portland transit agency's award-winning initiative leverages Instacart+ memberships to enhance convenience and quality of life for paratransit riders, reducing costs and freeing up essential staff ...
AOL: First phase of TriMet service cuts take effect in Portland metro area
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – As TriMet faces a budget shortfall, service cuts for select bus lines went into effect in the Portland metro area Sunday morning. These cuts come after the agency laid off 26 ...
First phase of TriMet service cuts take effect in Portland metro area
MSN: TriMet to eliminate Portland-area bus routes, shorten MAX Green Line amid budget crisis
TriMet officials say they must shorten a MAX train line and eliminate or alter nearly three dozen bus routes as the beleaguered mass transit agency attempts to close a punishing budget gap. The ...
TriMet to eliminate Portland-area bus routes, shorten MAX Green Line amid budget crisis
The Portland Mercury: “We Want the Same Protections”: TriMet Safety Staff Announce Union Effort
Safety Response Team members near a MAX stop in downtown Portland. Credit: TriMet Alison Segler has worked as a TriMet Safety Response Team staffer for the better part of the last five years. She is ...
The Portland Mercury: TriMet Might Shutter 4 MAX Stations in Downtown Portland
TriMet provides public transportation options and schedules in the Portland metro area, including buses, light rail, and commuter trains.
TriMet operates a light rail system (MAX Light Rail), the Portland Streetcar, and a commuter rail line (WES Commuter Rail). TriMet is "a municipal corporation of the State of Oregon", with powers to tax, issue bonds, and enact police ordinances and is governed by a seven-member board of directors appointed by the Governor of Oregon. [9] It has its own boundary, which currently encompasses an ...
The Type 1 trains had been in service for 40 years. Riders said they’re an iconic part of Oregon history. People draw and write on the Type 1 Max train on in Portland, Ore. Trimet ...