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Letters... The Mid-county Memo is your newspaper. We want to hear from you. Discuss an important issue or address a concern you want to call to the attention of the community. We prefer e-mailed letters to the editor sent to Darlene Vinson at editor@midcountymemo.com. Please put Letter to the editor in the subject line. You may also mail your letter to 3510 N.E. 134th Ave., Portland, OR 97230 or fax it to 503-249-7672. Deadline for the September issue is Wednesday, Aug. 15. Keep accessible bus in Parkrose To the Editor: Please tell TriMet not to remove our low-floor (no-steps) bus. While TriMet is replacing 55 of its oldest buses this September with the newest buses on the market, the low-floor bus that has been alternating for three years from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the 22 Parkrose, 23 San Rafael, and 25 Glisan/Rockwood lines is to be replaced in September with a bus with steps purchased in the mid to late 1980s. TriMet has written on its website that these aging buses are uncomfortable for riders and operators, they are becoming too unreliable and expensive for us to maintain. As one operator said, They are old technology. As a bus rider I know that many passengers, especially the elderly and disabled, plan their bus trips around a low-floor bus because access on and off the bus is easier and safer. For those with walkers, strollers, shopping baskets, heavy bags and rolling backpacks a low-floor bus is helpful. Low-floor buses also emit less pollution and noise in our community and have advance braking systems that make them safer to operate in our neighborhoods. Obviously, everyone wants a low-floor bus on their route so let TriMet know how strongly we want the low-floor bus we are used to riding kept in place. Taking it away is going back in time, not forward. We do not want the newest state-of-the art low-floor bus. We just want to keep our current low-floor bus. Call TriMet at 503 238-RIDE or e-mail comments@trimet.org. Please state your name and the bus routes you use: 22 Parkrose, 23 San Rafael, or 25 Glisan/Rockwood. Paulette Rossi Argay resident and TriMet rider |
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