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Streetcar Line Colors Assigned, Amber Line Breaks Ridership Records
As the Streetcar Loop moves into final engineering TriMet has assigned colors for the system map for our soon-to-be-two-line system. The current alignment from South Waterfront to NW 23rd will be the Amber Line, while the new Loop route (which won’t really be a loop until 2015 or so) will be the Aqua Line. I…
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WES: Fall opening falls behind.
TriMet has delayed the opening of WES until February 2nd, primarily due to problems with the railcar vendor. From the press release: TriMet purchased three self-propelled Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) cars and one trailer from Colorado Railcar Manufacturing (CRM). TriMet contracted with CRM, the only U.S. firm that builds DMUs that meets federal safety standards…
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KBOO Bike Show: The Bike Economy
Listen to the show (mp3, 20.0MB) Portland’s bike economy is surging. Tori and Carl talk about the bike industry in our region with guests Jennifer Nolfi (Portland Development Commission), Jessica Roberts (Alta Planning), and Matt Cardinal from Signal Cycles.
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U.S. gives $6 million to speed Portland-Seattle Amtrak service
Via the Oregonian. Federal officials awarded $6 million to the Point Defiance Bypass Project, which is intended to reroute Amtrak service near Tacoma. The new route would avoid a tunnel and a congested area near the Port of Tacoma, saving six minutes on the 3-1/2 hour Portland-Seattle trip.
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Tigard City Council Calls for High Capacity Transit Options
Go, Tigard, go!