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Streetcar to Hibernate
The Streetcar is going on vacation! From Sept 13th to 26th, while we build the connection between the existing streetcar tracks in the Pearl to the new tracks coming over the Broadway Bridge, the streetcar will not operate. The problem is there is nowhere to turn around at the north end of the alignment. This…
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Four Streetcar Systems Funded for $25M each by Feds
USDOT announced $293M in “Urban Circulator” grants today and Streetcar proposals in Fort Worth, Cincinnati, Charlotte and St. Louis each nabbed $25M. Analysis at the transport politic. Hopefully Oregon Ironworks has already dispatched sales teams…
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Continuing to Invest in our Local Streetcar Manufacturing Capacity
The good news this morning is that the Federal Transit Administration has awarded $2.4M to TriMet (most of it will eventually flow to Oregon Iron Works) for the purpose of using our prototype streetcar to investigate and develop: A U.S.-made (Rockwell) propulsion system Battery technology that would allow the vehicle to operate for some distance…
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Streetcar Demand 10x Available Funding
A while back, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that FTA was setting aside $130M to fund Streetcar projects around the nation. That’s on top of the Streetcar funding made available under the TIGER grants. Streetsblog is reporting that more than $1.1B in applications for that pot of money have been received. Nice to be popular.…
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Updated: Portland Streetcar Awarded $23M in TIGER Funds
Update: 3/9/10 In the comments to this post I was asked if the grant was for the entire Innovation Quadrant program, or if it applied to the Moody component only. I learned last week that in fact the grant amount awarded is only for Moody. We’ll need to keep looking for funding for the Sustainability…