What happens if someone who might have COVID-19 rides a bus? There’s a lot on our plates everyday, but the most important thing is always the safety of our riders and employees. This takes on a new urgency as we confront the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. We’re...
All The Ways To Pay — Including Cash Change is hard. And at the beginning of this year, we made a major change: we modernized how we pay for transit by retiring two payment methods — paper fares and the TriMet Tickets App — that had been with us for a long time. All...
We’re Taking Action Today To Reduce Our Emissions The time for climate action is now — and we must all step up to protect our planet. Today, we’re announcing a number of actions we’re taking to reduce our agency’s — and our region’s — carbon...
How MAX Moves Downtown Have you ever stopped to marvel at the complicated dance that is Downtown Portland? In a relatively small amount of space, we have light rail, streetcars, buses, cars, bikes, scooters, pedestrians and more. And yet, everything moves remarkably...
Why Did My Bus Pass Me By? We’ve all been there. You’re waiting at the stop and see your bus coming down the road. It’s getting closer, closer…wait, it’s not slowing down? Oh no, it’s not stopping! ARGH! This experience can leave you feeling like Charlie...
Why Does a New MAX Line Take So Long to Plan? We started talking about it a decade ago, but the new light rail line is still almost 10 years away. Why? Portland’s first light rail, the Blue Line, began service between Downtown Portland and Gresham in ‘86. Since then...
