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TriMet and Metro to extend Blue Line to Central Oregon
Today, TriMet president Neil McFarlane and Metro president Tom Hughes announced the start of a new transit project, the Hood and Central Oregon Corridor. This project, a 210-mile (338km) extension of the Blue Line, would provide light rail service to Sandy, Mount Hood, Madras, Redmond, Bend, and Sunriver. The line would end at a transit…
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HUMP-IT: TriMet and BTA introduce “Active Transit”
For a long time, activists have frequently lumped public transit (including bus, Streetcar, and light rail) together in with various means of human-powered locomotion, including walking and bicycling. Today, TriMet and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance are proud to announce the HUMP-IT program. HUMP-IT, or Human Powered Intermodal Transportation, is intended to usher in a new…
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City of Portland announces new “Portland Hayride” project
This morning, Portland mayor Charlie Hales announced that the City, in cooperation with the Buckman, Hosford-Abernathy, Richmond, Sunnyside, and Mt. Tabor neighborhood associations, is forming a new quasi-public entity known as Portland Hayride, Inc. (PHI), chartered to provide horse-drawn public transit along SE Hawthorne. The proposed line, which will run between the east end of…
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TriMet announces new Type 5 MAX vehicle
In response to criticism that it is underfunding its bus system in favor of rail, TriMet has announced plans to cancel a prior solicitation for rolling stock as part of the Portland-Milwaukie project. Instead of purchasing conventional light-rail EMUs (Electric Multiple Units), the agency instead intends to partner with Oregon Iron Works to build a…