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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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”
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.
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.
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.
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