Portland Transport

Category: Streetcar

  • The Role of Streetcar

    There’s an excellent post over on Intermodality laying out the difference between buses, streetcars and light rail. I’m not 100% in agreement on all the details, but I think it does a great job with the big picture and the role of streetcars.

  • Streetcar Line Colors Assigned, Amber Line Breaks Ridership Records

    As the Streetcar Loop moves into final engineering TriMet has assigned colors for the system map for our soon-to-be-two-line system. The current alignment from South Waterfront to NW 23rd will be the Amber Line, while the new Loop route (which won’t really be a loop until 2015 or so) will be the Aqua Line. I…

  • Portland Streetcar Loop Visualizations

    I recently worked with the Portland Streetcar organization to develop 3D “visualizations” of the new loop route on the eastside, to be shown at public meetings and made available online. The project is a good example of how geographically-oriented data from many sources is converging to help people better-understand their communities and better-communicate ideas. Using…

  • Streetcar Loop Moves Forward, Your Input Needed on Future Routes

    Yesterday Portland City Council approved the start of final engineering for the Streetcar Loop. The Council had actually conditionally approved this last March. The condition was that we either had to have FTA approval of the Federal dollars, or Congressional earmark of those same dollars. The facts on the ground did not quite line up…

  • New York Times Revels in Streetcars

    Updated, 8/18/08 Apparently, this article struck a cord in a number of place. The Overhead Wire blog has a catalog. Original post, 8/14/08 Basking in the glow…