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Some Elected Officials Disagreed With Move to Advise TriMet on Executive Director Search Clackamas County Chair Jim Bernard says he’s suspicious Metro may be angling to take over the transit agency. MAX Orange Line station. (Brian Burk) As
WW reported earlier this week, a large number of advocacy groups and local elected officials have offered TriMet unsolicited advice about how to hire its next executive director. Advocates and electeds wrote separate letters to the regional transit agency s board last week following the Dec. 17 announcement that current TriMet general manager Doug Kelsey will retire in March 2021 when his contract expires.
TriMet seeks comment on unfunded SW MAX project December 18 2020
The regional transit agency is completing the environmental assessment even though Metro will not seek regional funding again until 2022, at the earliest.
TriMet is finalizing the federally-required environmental assessment of the proposed Southwest Corridor MAX line, even though Metro President Lynn Peterson has said regional funding for the project will not be sought until 2022, at the earliest.
TriMet had been planning a new light rail line between Portland and Bridgeport Village to be partly funded by Metro s $5.2 billion regional transportation funding measure on the November general election ballot. But voters in all three counties in Metro s jurisdiction defeated the measure, prompting the regional transit agency to stop working on the project.
TriMet seeks comment on unfunded SW MAX project December 18 2020
The regional transit agency is completing the environmental assessment even though Metro will not seek regional funding again until 2022, at the earliest.
TriMet is finalizing the federally-required environmental assessment of the proposed Southwest Corridor MAX line, even though Metro President Lynn Peterson has said regional funding for the project will not be sought until 2022, at the earliest.
TriMet had been planning a new light rail line between Portland and Bridgeport Village to be partly funded by Metro s $5.2 billion regional transportation funding measure on the November general election ballot. But voters in all three counties in Metro s jurisdiction defeated the measure, prompting the regional transit agency to stop working on the project.