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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4 responses to “Preparing to Cross”

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

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