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News TriMet faces a lawsuit from the family of a pedestrian run over and killed by one of its buses on April 24 in Old Town and from another pedestrian injured in the incident. The lawsuit seeks $10 million from the public transit agency for each of the two victims. The suit (PDF) was filed Tuesday on behalf of two residents of Vancouver, Wash. Danielle Sale, 22, was killed in the crash. Erik ...   More

News TriMet drivers, turn off your cell phones now. That edict by TriMet general manager Neil McFarlane is one of two changes he announced today aimed at improving safety in response to a bus crash April 24 that killed two pedestrians and injured another. The new policy dealing with personal electronic devices is in contrast to TriMet's earlier policy of requiring that those devices merely be ...   More