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July 5, 2007
Preparing to Cross
Portland Streetcar will be shortlined this weekend from Friday evening until Monday morning as the new Mall LRT line installs the crossings between Market and Mill.
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More photos after the break...
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Posted by Chris Smith at 6:33 AM
Comments
July 5, 2007 4:21 PM
Jason McHuff Says:
Nice of you to get photos of this and the funding event. Its interesting to see the streetcar travel sans street (or, a street-less streetcar).
And information on the replacement bus service is here.
July 5, 2007 8:54 PM
zilfondel Says:
It would be cool to see the streetcar built in a grassy ROW like you see in Europe. Although people in the US are probably stupid enough to play on the tracks and get runover.
July 6, 2007 5:32 PM
Bob R. Says:
Jason wrote: street-less streetcar
Hah... I like that one. :-)
Not to be confused with electric trolleybuses, which are "trackless trolleys"... of course.
- Bob R.
July 6, 2007 8:49 PM
Jason McHuff Says:
street-less streetcar
I believe another occasion of this happening was when the streetcar first opened, before the Pearl District streets were complete. See this photo, formerly on About.com.
As for grassy right-of-ways, Eugene's EmX line has grass between the two wheel "tracks" in places.
Lastly, I'd like to note that the tracks pictured above were put in only 7-8 years ago. And that they'll planning to close the streetcar (and MAX) twice instead of doing both the 5th and 6th Aves crossings at the same time
July 8, 2007 1:07 PM
Adron Says:
I remember those days (Re: Jason McHuff's comment). I used to ride out around that curve and always wondered what would be built out there. Now I know. :)
I used to think, "this is silly, I sure hope the economy expands and business is surrounding the line soon!" I guess I didn't have much to worry about. :)
