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The dead are not the passengers / Agency

TriMet

Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, dba: TriMet · Portland, OR · NTD ID 00008

TriMet reported 1,323 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 45 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 3.25 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 70 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 1.01x the national rate.

Full
Events per million miles
3.25
#38 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
1,323
#16 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
45
771 injured, 41 seriously
Service driven
98M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 319 events in that window
Its rate on a scale ending at the worst agency in the country (New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, 12.54). The tick is the national rate (3.21).
Who died on this system
  • Other or unclassified 12
  • People on the road 9
  • People on the right-of-way 7
  • Waiting or boarding 7
  • Suicides 6
  • Riding the vehicle 4

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 45. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 58 → 2025: 137 · peak 137

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 1 worker assault events 2015: 0 worker assault events 2016: 3 worker assault events 2017: 3 worker assault events 2018: 3 worker assault events 2019: 5 worker assault events 2020: 1 worker assault events 2021: 4 worker assault events 2022: 4 worker assault events 2023: 2 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 2 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 5 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

34 total · peak 5 in a year

The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.

What it runs
  • Core Rail 757
  • Fixed-Route Bus 534
  • Other Non-Rail 32

Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.