Busses can do the work of trains!

From Portland Tribune, "Train work again sidetracks commuter rail service"

Additional maintenance work on a commuter train will disrupt WES service again Tuesday.

It’s the second day that train maintenance forced TriMet to use buses on some of the commuter rail trips.

TriMet said that four of 16 WES trips will be handled by shuttle buses. Trips leaving Wilsonville Station at 6:21 and 7:51 a.m., and the trips leaving Beaverton Transit Center at 6:58 and 8:28 a.m., will be provided by shuttle buses.

Riders can take the shuttle, ride the local bus or take the next WES train, and should add up to 30 minutes to their commute.

Tuesday afternoon WES service is expected to be back to normal.

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From OregonLive.com, Train repairs still disrupting WES commute


TriMet said Monday that the mid-September opening of the eastside Green Line has pushed weekly MAX light-rail ridership up nearly 12 percent from a year ago.

The Green Line that connects downtown Portland with Clackamas Town Center averaged 17,000 weekday trips in its first three weeks of operation.

TriMet reported that there were 8.3 million trips on buses, MAX and WES between Sept. 13 and 30, a 4 percent decline from a year earlier. Ridership is down mostly because of the sour economy, unemployment and lower gasoline prices this fall, according to TriMet.