Author Archives: Tia York

From jobs to schools and services, TriMet improves connections to opportunities with August 2024 service change

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Summer rollout includes improvements to bus service; two new bus lines; new bus network in place of late-night/early-morning MAX service; expansion of MAX Red Line service to Hillsboro; and new names for three MAX stations TriMet is rolling out one of our largest-ever service updates on Sunday, Aug. 25. Riders can expect new and more […]

TriMet Board adopts budget gearing up for continued ridership gains in the year ahead

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$1.84 billion budget provides framework to grow ridership, improve the customer experience and add service, as operator staffing levels allow During its May business meeting, the TriMet Board of Directors adopted the agency’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget. The $1.84 billion budget supports TriMet’s goals to restore ridership to pre-pandemic levels and beyond in an ambitious, […]

TriMet’s $1.75 billion budget for next fiscal year drives toward major ridership increase

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With continuing investments in safety and security, cleanliness, service improvements, system reliability, workforce development and climate action, TriMet looks to sustain and grow ridership into the future As we head into our next budget year, TriMet is thinking big for our agency and our region. We’ve put a priority on ridership and getting more people […]

New executives add more than half a century of transit maintenance experience to TriMet’s leadership team

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TriMet has named two new members to the executive leadership team: Dan Blair is the Executive Director of the agency’s newly developed Transit Systems and Asset Support Division and John Weston is the new Executive Director of Maintenance Operations, the position that Blair had been serving in an interim capacity since early 2023. Both executives will […]

With reduced fare, you could ride TriMet for a month, for less than the cost of a tank of gas. See if you qualify and start saving today!

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Since 2018, more than 60,000 people have signed up for our reduced Honored Citizen fare based on income, and we’ve expanded ways to qualify to include active duty military and veterans, as well as people 65+, on Medicare or experiencing a disability Are you living on a low income? Serving in the U.S. military or […]

Come work for TriMet, as December pay increase boosts wages for union employees 11.5% since 2022

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TriMet’s more than 2,500 union employees receive 4% wage increase starting Dec. 1 under Working & Wage Agreement extension negotiated with Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) 757 in 2022 TriMet employees who are represented by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) 757 are getting a raise this December. The 4% wage increase takes effect Friday, Dec. 1, for […]

Ready when you are! More buses arriving every 15 minutes or better as TriMet rolls out service improvements starting Sunday, Dec. 3

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Forward Together improvements starting Sunday, Dec. 3: Frequent Service upgrade for Line 48-Cornell, route change for Line 62-Murray Blvd, more weekend service on Line 70-12th/NE 33rd Ave, plus changes at Sunset Transit Center and schedule improvements to help keep buses on time Better bus service is coming to Washington County! Starting Sunday, Dec. 3, we’re […]