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See what we've been up to at TriMet!
Mark your calendar! We’re throwing a party to celebrate FX2-Division, TriMet’s first Frequent Express bus line! Join us the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 17 for festivals along the route, at the OMSI Bridge Lot next to Tilikum Crossing, PCC Southeast and the Gresham Farmers’ Market.
Stop by each festival site for local food, live entertainment and fun! Don’t miss our huge paint-by-numbers murals, exclusive giveaways and prizes! Plus, we’ll have free rides on our big, green FX buses! Come See. Ride Free. Learn more!
Over the next few weeks, we’ll complete finishing touches to get FX2-Division service up and rolling on Sunday, Sept. 18! From finalizing maps and schedules to installing weather protection and new lighting at bus stop stations, our teams are hard at work getting everything ready.
We’ve already updated our website, trimet.org, with the new schedule. Plan a trip for Sept. 18 or later to see where you’ll catch FX and how your trip will improve. FX2-Division buses will arrive every 12 minutes for most of the day, every day, with service from about 4:30 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. and easy transfers to MAX and many other bus lines.
Heads up! TriMet’s ‘A Better Red’ project will require the closing of I-84 at the I-205 interchange near Gateway from 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, through 4 a.m. Monday, Sept. 26. The closures will allow crews to set girders for a new light rail bridge we’re building over I-84.
The NE 102nd Avenue on-ramp to I-84 West will also close. Plan for delays or take an alternate route. Visit tripcheck.com for real time traffic information and trimet.org/betterred for more on the project.
MAX Blue Line service will be disrupted Saturday, Sept. 24, through Sunday, Sept. 25, for a crossing improvement at the intersection of Southeast 102nd Avenue and Burnside Street. Shuttle buses will serve MAX stations between Gateway Transit Center and Southeast 122nd Avenue.
During the disruption, crews will revitalize tracks and a rail crossing. Traffic controls will be in place near NE 102nd Ave and Burnside St. to help auto drivers get around the worksite safely. Visit trimet.org/improvements for more information.
Looking for a direct route to career opportunities? Three talented operators share their stories of how they found new beginnings and bright futures at TriMet.
“When I got that call from TriMet, I cried. I cried because there was a sense of relief. It was a sense of knowing that I am now able to build a foundation and build financial stability for myself,” bus operator Leslie Newton said.
And the future is even brighter! A two-year contract extension increases an operator’s base pay, currently $25.24, by 7.5% starting December 1, 2022, and by another 4% effective December 1, 2023!
TriMet has selected Nancy Young-Oliver as the agency’s new Chief Financial Officer. We didn’t have to go far to find the ideal candidate for this role. Young-Oliver has been helping to balance the books at TriMet for more than seven years, serving most recently as Director of Budget and Grants. Learn more about Young-Oliver’s record of excellence leading up to her well-earned promotion to Executive Director of Finance and Administrative Services.
TriMet has been awarded a $5.6 million federal grant to reshape bus layover areas and upgrade operator break facilities at our Beaverton Transit Center. The renovations will help expand the transit center to better support bus operations and service upgrades. Those will include space to accommodate new electric buses in the future!
TriMet has teams of people working to help riders and keep our system safe – and we’re actively working to increase their presence on and around our buses and trains.
We’re adding more Customer Safety Supervisors, who are TriMet employees that check fares and address conduct on the system. We’re also bringing on more unarmed transit security officers, as the worker shortage allows. While that worker shortage has kept the number of police officers assigned to the Transit Police Division down as well, we are working with our law enforcement partners to try to fill the division’s 65 budgeted police positions. We’re also expanding the number of members on our Safety Response Team, a new team that came on board last fall. Team members are unarmed and focus on connecting people on and around our transit system with social services, such as housing, health care, counseling. Learn more about our teams at trimet.org/personnel.
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When you’re a junior, you follow in your father’s footsteps by name. TriMet MAX Operator of the Year, Obeary Spires Jr. is also following his father’s legacy in on-the-job achievement. Spires’ dad was named TriMet Bus Operator of the Year two decades ago. Now the younger Spires holds the honor, bestowed by his fellow light rail operators. TriMet names operators of the year for MAX, bus and part-time bus operator positions annually.
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