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Total Lack of Bridge Imagination Continues to Plague Region
As if the box-girder Columbia River Crossing was not bad enough, Portland Architecture and several other blogs are reporting that TriMet will ignore the elegant modified cable-stay design by international designer Miguel Rosales in favor of a cheap and generic cable-stay alternative. Maybe while Fred is in Australia he can take a look at the…
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Fort Worth Hearts Portland (especially Streetcar)
Passed on by a reader. Even I’ll admit it’s a bit over the top.
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Financing Public Transportation
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2009 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Michael Ward Public Transit Division Administrator, Oregon Department of Transportation Topic: How Public Transportation is Financed in Oregon When: Friday, May 22, 2009, 12:00 – 1:00pm Where: PSU Urban Center Building, SW 6th and Mill, Room 204
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Streetcar Delivery / Unloading Video
Here’s video I shot of this morning’s delivery of the first streetcar from United Streetcar, LLC. The entire process took about two hours, edited here to just six minutes. (Update: A higher-quality version hosted by Vimeo is available after the break.)
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Special Delivery
At about 6:40 this morning the first made-in-USA modern streetcar in a half century was being lined up on the wash track at the Portland Streetcar maintenance facility, and was being positioned under a portable crane for unloading! More photos after the jump…