Portland Transport

Category: Streetcar

  • Streetcars to be Unloaded Today

    Update, 10:45am: I am told unloading of the first car has commenced. I am told the 3 new vehicles will be unloaded at the maintenance facility (NW Northrup and 16th) today and tomorrow. I don’t have any word on what time they’ll start today.

  • Streetcar Vehicle Pipeline

    Update: The vehicles are apparently snowed in in Wyoming. Earliest possible arrival is Monday. Two pieces of news on new Streetcar Vehicles: Cars 8, 9 and 10 are almost here from the Czech Republic! Cars 8 and 9 landed in Baltimore just after Christmas and car 10 cleared customs in NJ on New Year’s Eve…

  • Streetcar Makes USA Today

    We’ve gone mass media. And they got the image wrong :-)

  • Streetcar Options in LO

    The Lake Oswego transit alternatives analysis hasn’t settled on a mode yet, but if Streetcar comes up as the winner, there are going to be some interesting choices for how to terminate the alignment. In any case, the Streetcar will help spur development in the Foothills district between Highway 43 and the Willamette. There are…

  • What’s the Utility of a Train/Bus Hybrid?

    Two different readers forwarded me links to this train/bus hybrid vehicle being introduced by JR Hokkaido. On of them was Adron, who blogged about it at his site. So it seems to me that we now have a variety of design choices for transit system, divided along several dimensions: Dedicated right-of-way (e.g., LRT, BRT) versus…