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Local Streetcar Manufacturing At the Table for Obama Job Summit
Chandra Brown of United Streetcar (a subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works) is one of 100 business people who will be at President Obama’s December jobs summit. Here’s the press release from Congressman Blumenaur: Blumenauer Announces United Streetcar President Chandra Brown to Join President Obama at Jobs Summit Portland, OR -Congressman Blumenauer (D-Ore) announced today that,…
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Talking to Conservatives About Rail Transit
Streetfilms has a great video with William Lind, a conservative transit advocate, about how to talk about transit in terms that conservatives will appreciate. I would also note that the late Paul Weyrich, who co-founded the Heritage Foundation, was a trail transit advocate, evening making that point while serving on an infrastructure panel for the…
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New United Streetcar Video
OK, it’s blatant promotion – but it’s still a cool story. Check it out on their home page.
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Streetcar Loop Funds now In the Bank!
Dear Friends, This morning, I joined Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) Administrator Peter Rogoff to sign the construction grant agreement and finalize the Portland Streetcar expansion, unleashing $75 million in federal funds to extend Portland’s existing downtown streetcar line across the Willamette River and into the East side of the city. This final step in funding…
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Buying a Lottery Ticket for the “Innovation Quadrant”
If you haven’t heard of it, the Innovation Quadrant is the latest name for the area covering PSU, OHSU and OMSI. More to the point, it includes three projects that will help ‘close’ the Streetcar Loop after the new bridge is completed: Create a new double-track connection through the re-developed Jasmine block adjacent to the…