…or on any schedule that makes sense - as Greyduck and I both discovered this morning.

I’d heard ‘Saturday schedule’, so adjusted my thinking accordingly. But what’s this? The little flyer you can pick up (once you’ve boarded a bus, that is) contains phrases like this:

• Saturday schedule plus 8 early morning and 6 late night trips (for the #1 Greeley bus and several others, for example)

or this

• Weekday schedule (if you ride the #43 Taylors Ferry route or 28 other routes)
• And if you ride the #95? (or 11 other routes) You’re SOL today - they’re cancelled.

From what Greyduck says, the schedules in the shelters downtown themselves are off, as was his PDA tracker - but I did just discover a customized version of Trip Planner, just for today (it’s normally my favorite method to determine what’s what…)

Finally, TriMet has the following caveats posted - along with a warning that a late afternoon march might play further havoc with the planned schedules. Okay, okay - I can buy that. But what’s with all of the extra early-morning trips - but no corresponding rush hour service home (many of the lines that offer early morning extra runs aren’t repeating that in the afternoon, it seems…)?

Couldn’t we at least have had a little consistency here, people?

Your best bet, if you absolutely, positively have to get there via mass transit & don’t have access to a computer? Call TriMet & see if someone there can make any sense of it all…

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