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Seventy “Citizen Planners” Plot Streetcar Future
On Saturday morning, seventy community members spent three hours at PSU brainstorming potential future corridors as an informal kick-off to the City-wide rail plan process that will formally launch in September. A few common themes emerged: Heading north on MLK or Williams/Vancouver to Alberta or Killingsworth Heading east on Hawthorne, Division or Woodstock, ultimately connecting…
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900:10 Opportunity
Factoid from today’s regional Streetcar conference. Prague in the Czech Republic with a regional population of about 1.9M has a Streetcar fleet of 900 vehicles. Portland, with its regional population of 2.1M has 10 cars in its fleet. Room for growth :-)
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Updated: Help Vision Portland’s Streetcar Future
Update: The workshop is tomorrow! RSVP today if you haven’t already… Update: Venue changed – now at the PSU Smith Center Get on board and join Commissioner Sam Adams for a brainstorming session to discuss the future of streetcars in Portland. In addition to learning more about the current and future plans for streetcar corridors,…
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Web of Streetcars
Most of Sam Adam’s speech at City Club on Friday was about the more dismal question of how to pay for maintenance, but the Oregonian coverage leads with the idea for a City-wide Streetcar plan. Sam hearkened back to the 1920’s when Portland had over 100 miles of Streetcar tracks. You can download the full…
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Rapid Streetcar
A quick shout out to a post over at “The Overhead Wire” blog that talks about the topic of rapid streetcar. It posits that Streetcars with greater stop spacing could serve as more cost effective alternatives to Light Rail, and references the proposed Lake Oswego line as an example. [Bob, if you dig through the…