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🌎 Cleaner air for us all 🌎
 Until this month, we were the largest consumer of fossil diesel in Oregon. No more. This is the cleaner renewable diesel fuel we switched our buses over to on December 2.
The impact of this change plus our move to all renewable electricity earlier this year is the equivalent of taking more than 15,000 cars off our streets!
Video: See how this new fuel burns compared to our old fuel.
🚌 Tell your friends: TriMet is hiring 🚌
 Starting January 9, we’re temporarily reducing how often buses come on 20 of our 84 bus lines due to a shortage of operators.
Temporarily reducing service means that buses will run more true to schedule and riders will encounter far fewer canceled buses. We know you depend on us and we make this move only after exhausting all other options.
We’re working hard to hire new operators. Starting pay has been raised by $4 an hour and we recently announced a $2,500 hiring bonus. Our operators get fantastic benefits and after three years, full time operators make over $68,000 annually. Know anyone who might be interested? Send them the listing.
↪️ Turn! Turn! Turn! ↪️
 The first time someone sees one of our articulated buses, they often ask us, “How is that massive bus going to be able to turn on our tight streets?”
So, we tested one with a drone filming. Here’s what we saw.
🥂 Celebrate safety on NYE 🥂
 Once again, we’re offering free bus, MAX and Portland Streetcar service after 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve! And with special extended late-night MAX service, you can get to the celebration — and home again — the safe and smart way.
Thank you to Oregon Department of Transportation for sponsoring these free rides!
🚈 Arriving soon! 🚈
 Our first “Type 6” MAX trains should arrive around mid-Spring. It's looking more and more like a train every day!
🚏 Let's go to the (transit) mall 🚏
 Twenty-one bus and MAX lines run on the Portland Transit Mall. Here’s the story of how this innovative piece of transit infrastructure came to be and how it has evolved since opening over 40 years ago.
🌊 Oh! The places you'll go without a car. ⛰️
 You don’t need a car to see Oregon’s splendor. Here are all the other transit systems you can connect to from TriMet, and where they’ll take you.
👋 Meet our new General Manager 👋
 Our new General Manager Sam Desue Jr. shares his story, from growing up with a single mother in Florida, to his decade in the military, to his time as a bus operator and ultimately why he sought to work in Portland.
📷 Vintage photo of the month 📷
📣 Quick hits 📣
Urbanism website Next City wrote about the Desert Rose and converting used diesel buses to electric. ⚡
Transit-oriented developments bring together people, housing, retail and transit. Take a look at Orenco Station on MAX Blue Line to see the the vibrant places these developments create. 🏙️
Reminder: Driving a bus is actually fun! 🚍
Our new Safety Response Team brings an additional unarmed safety presence to our system. 🦺
The Desert Rose isn’t the only used diesel bus we’ve converted to electric. Three “regular” 40-foot buses are being converted as well, and the first just arrived back in Portland. 🚌
It’s 5:45 a.m. Do you know where your buses are? 🌙
Our final bus wrap of 2021 celebrates local Native American heritage and leaders. 🙌
Don’t get caught unprepared this winter. Sign up to get service alerts delivered to your inbox.⛄
Face masks are required on transit until at least March 18, 2022 😷
🎄 One last thing... 🎄
From all of us at TriMet: A happy holidays to you and your loved ones. Thank you for riding with us this year and we look forward to serving you in 2022 ❤️
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