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Trimet clearly serves the morning and afternoon commute into and out of downtown, but fails to do a good job for commuters who don't work downtown.  The few times I have an opportunity to use Trimet are weekends or for the airport.  Unfortunately the service on the weekends is sparse, and as most flights leaving PDX are in the neighborhood of 6am, I cannot get a bus or train early enough to check in and make my early am flights so I still drive and park at the airport.

Equipment is not the problem for my using Trimet, service frequency and lack of early am service to the airport is why I cannot use Trimet more. 

Ed in Portland

posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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In Europe, retailers charge a fee for every bag they supply to you.  Rather than give a credit of 0.05 for every re-useable bag a customer brings, the store charges perhaps 0.25 for each bag no matter if plastic or paper.  The result is that nearly everybody brings a bag with them, and even the lightweight plastic bags get reused until they actually give out.

This system makes sense and works well.  I don't know if stores are required by government to charge for bags, or if this system developed all by itself.

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