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June 2024 ///
PORTLAND SUMMERRRRR!! ☀️😍
🚌 Pride Bus Wrap 🎨
A new bus wrap is out on the streets! We’re recognizing Pride Month with a bus featuring art by Portland artist Daniel Quasar, entitled “From Progress To Beyond.”
Here's the concept:
And the final product!
@danielquasar's design serves as a vibrant tapestry of inclusivity and representation. 🏳️🌈
You can see this bus on the streets for the next year, or at the Portland Pride Parade on July 21!
🧼 Clean Team, Assemble! 🧼
We've been sprucing up our system! Check out our new paint job...
👾 Upgrading Technology 👾
Have you seen our new digital information displays? We’ve been adding them at bus stops and transit centers around the region.
They provide real-time information to enhance accessibility and make the system easier to navigate.
🚊 Enforcing the Rules for Riding 🚌
We’ve been working to improve the customer experience through increased security efforts and cleaner vehicles, platforms and transit centers. To support those efforts, we will be doing more enforcement of our existing rules for riding beginning July 1.
This includes more fare checks, continued enforcement of no smoking of any substances on our transit system, and not allowing items on board that leak, block aisles, doors, or the priority seating areas.
Read more on the blog.
🚊 MAX Type 6 Testing 🚊
 Have you seen our new MAX Type 6 trains around the system?
Vehicles 603 and 605 are simulating service to ensure everything works, from the doors to the signs, the software and other systems.
We hope to have them in service this summer ☀️
☔️ Purple Raindrops Hop Card Giveaway 🔮
To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Prince's "Purple Rain" album, we're giving away 25 of our Purple Raindrop Hop cards!
These limited edition fare cards honor our iconic purple raindrops sector symbol and come pre-loaded with $5.00 in fare.
Enter to win by Friday, July 12.
🗺️ Explore! Go by TriMet 🧭
Take TriMet to awesome events this summer!
Here's some that we're sponsoring in July:
Sunday, June 30
🎉 Latino Cultural Festival
Live entertainment, cultural performances and food vendors in Hillsboro.
Thursday, July 4
🥒 Portland Pickles versus Portland Rosebuds A totally normal baseball game experience :)
(Game 1)
🥒 Portland Pickles versus Portland Gherkins
(Game 2)
🎊 Portland Craft Beer Festival
Join us for an all ages family day!
Saturday, July 13
🌉 Expedition: Bridge to Inclusion
An all-abilities challenge to celebrate Disability Pride Month.
🎊 ¡Viva Tualatin!
Live entertainment, cultural performances and food vendors in Tualatin.
🎉 Samoan Festival
Celebrating Samoan culture through dance, singing, art, food and more in Peninsula Park.
Friday, July 19
🌇 City Nite Out
The annual City Nite Out draws nearly 2,000 people from Wood Village and the greater East County region. Come for the free cotton candy and hot dogs!
Saturday, July 20
🛶 Explorando el Columbia Slough
A festival-style, bilingual community event to introduce Spanish-speaking and Latino communities to the Columbia Slough Watershed, local nonprofit organizations and other resources in the area.
🎨 La Strada dei Pastelli Chalk Art Festival (July 20-21)
Watch as artists work in real-time on their street paintings in Hillsboro, plus participate in hands-on activities.
✅ Rider Pro-Tip ✅
Did you know there's a way to report disruptive behavior on board, at platforms and transit centers?
You can quickly reach out to our security support team, 24/7! Text or call 503-238-7433 (RIDE) and security will be dispatched as needed. 📞📲
If you witness smoking on transit, we encourage you to notify the driver or operator.
And as always, in an emergency, contact 911.
📸 Photo of the Month 📸
Glamour shots were a thing back in the day!
As were the old Crown-Ikarus articulated buses, which we had from 1982 through 1999.
Thanks for reading.
I promise you're my favorite rider. 🥰
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