Click image for full size graphic Portland is hosting one of a series of regional conferences on Streetcars organized by Reconnecting America on Friday, July 27th. This will be the first of four such conferences, the others being in Denver, Madison and Charlotte. But even more exciting, we’re planning to hold a session on local…

Jim Howell has an alternate notion of how to operate the Streetcar Loop. He’s paired it with a Hawthorne Bridge crossing, but I don’t know why it couldn’t work with a more southernly crossing, or indeed, before the crossing is created. If streetcars were routed over the Hawthorne Bridge and south to Harrison, as I…

The project advisory committee weighed in on potential stop locations yesterday (indicated on image – click on the image for a larger version). Biggest debate was where to locate one between the Max crossing, Convention Center and State Office Building for maximum effect.

I suggested a few weeks ago that we try to come up with a way to measure the accuracy of the Streetcar NextBus predictions (since they have been a source of some complaints reported in the press). Turns out someone has already done it (at least for a small data sample). Rob Bertini of PSU…