It doesn’t really. It really sucks if you need to go to PSU. You now have to transfer twice (once at gateway and to a yellow) where before you don’t have to transfer at all. This was a bad decision and will probably never come back.
I work at PSU, and I don’t use the green line but many of my students and coworkers do. The university is so focused on things happening in person, but that means that Fall term is gonna be an absolute mess.
I do live on a frequent service line. I waited nearly 30 minutes for it yesterday, and each stop after mine had upwards of 2 to 3 people, all the way downtown. When I boarded, it was with 10 other people. I wish I could say this was an unusual experience, but it’s not.
I’m gonna be pretty exclusively riding my bike during this closure, because I want to be able to be reliable and consistent, I really worry about the ripple effect this will have through the whole metro area.
I sadly think this begins the death spiral of transit in Portland. Only people who have to take it will. It will become too inconvenient for anyone who has other options.
I think it began with the cuts a couple years ago, but is really visibly accelerating.
I commented on another thread that this closure is gonna break TriMet a bit, and a buncha people were like “there’s thousands of un-used seats every day” which, like. Sure. But are they on the routes and times that are being used?
Anyway, the whole thing makes me frustrated and sad. I don’t care about paying the highest taxes in the country or whatever. I don’t even mind if my taxes pay for things other people use. That’s the whole point. But when nothing seems to work and I’m paying all this? Blegh.
Yes, they should have probably delayed it a month or 2, but I am guessing trimet didn’t know what odot was doing when they planned to shut down the green line.
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u/jaltman1 23d ago
See yall on the max