TriMet Facing Cuts Under Proposed Transportation Budget
(Portland, OR) -- TriMet says it faces large service cuts under the transportation package being considered in the Oregon Legislature. The employee payroll tax that helps fund service would only increase eight-hundredths of a percent. TriMet and the Oregon Transit Association say a phased in four-tenths of a percent increase is needed. Without the increase 51 of 78 bus lines would be eliminated by 2031.



