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Sine Die Breathes Life into Streetcar Loop
The final days of the legislative session were very good for Streetcar in Portland. The package of Lottery bonding projects included two key items: $20M for vehicles for the Streetcar Loop About $250M for the bridge for Milwaukie Light Rail That means that not only are we in good shape for the capital side of…
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Guilty as Charged
And damn proud of it. Monday’s Oregonian features a front page story that essentially accuses Peter DeFazio, the City of Portland and Portland Streetcar of working to get Federal dollars to Oregon Iron Works to help jump start a local streetcar manufacturing industry. I believe the official charge should be “conspiracy to create jobs in…
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Wall Street Journal Smarter than FTA?
An article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal nicely contrasts the transportation benefits versus development benefits of Streetcar. The Federal Transit Administration is having trouble understanding the two sets of benefits, as illustrated by the fact that all the projects funded so far under the new ‘Small Starts’ category have been BRT projects. That should change…
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KBOO Bike Show: Keeping Portland Weird
Listen to the show (mp3, 7.0M) Keeping Portland Weird – by bike. We talk with tall bike builder Tiago Denczuk and Jacque Authier, the mastermind behind the Sexy Cyclists ride who has big dreams of getting more women over 40 back on their bikes.
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Clueless at 11th and Morrison
Captured on my cell phone this morning. It took 4 or 5 blasts of the LRT horn before the driver woke up.