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Local Streetcar Manufacturing Stimulating Economy
The Daily Journal of Commerce focuses on one company where a Streetcar sub-contract resulted in re-hiring 10 employees.
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Transit Equity Coming?
Congressman (and Transportation Chair) Jim Oberstar will release a white paper on Thursday outlining his plan for the next surface transportation reauthorization bill. One issue that many transit advocates are hoping for is ‘transit equity’, the idea that the disparity between Federal match for highways (80-90%) and match for transit projects (50-60%, usually 50%) might…
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Streetcar Takes its Share of the Pain
Along with all the scheduled changes last Sunday to move buses back to the Transit mall, it might have been missed that Portland Streetcar also had a schedule change. Several months ago, TriMet informed Streetcar that for the upcoming operating year, it would be reducing its funding to Streetcar operations by the same 8% that…
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Lucky 13!
That’s how many streetcars Oregon Iron Works now has orders for. In addition to six vehicles for Portland’s Streetcar Loop, OIW has just received an order for seven streetcars from Tuscon!
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Fort Worth Hearts Portland (especially Streetcar)
Passed on by a reader. Even I’ll admit it’s a bit over the top.