Portland Transport

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  • Washington County Commuter Rail Groundbreaking celebration!

    Update: 10/22/06 Jim Mayer has a piece in the Oregonian this morning that explores in detail the issues of operating on the freight line. Original Post: 10/20/06 MEDIA ADVISORY Washington County Commuter Rail Groundbreaking celebration! Oct. 25th event at Tigard Transit Center After 10 years of planning, the 14.7-mile Washington County Commuter Rail Project will…

  • Land, Sea and Air

    The opening of the Gibbs extension was an interesting juxtaposition between land transportation (Streetcar), aerial (the tram landing pictured here) and water (the barge being built just to the left of the tram landing at the Zidell plant).

  • Time to Celebrate! (Gibbs)

    I’ll be heading out the door momentarily to get downtown for the ceremonial first train and celebration of the opening of the Portland Streetcar extension to Gibbs St. Join us at 11am today for the official ceremonies (read speeches) at Gibbs and Moody (below the Tram landing tower). Or come back to the same location…

  • Security Dollars for Transit

    The Portland Business Journal is reporting that Homeland Security has awarded $800K to TriMet and $150K to C-Tran for security. Anyone from TriMet reading out there who can tell us how it will get spent?

  • 30 Years of Trolleybus Advocacy

    Long-time transit advocates will be familiar with Ray Polani. Ray has been advocating for a greater role for public transit for decades, most recently focusing on the need to run MAX under the river and underground through downtown for greater speed and efficiency. Ray is old-school, he doesn’t use a computer. Nonetheless he heard about…