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Time to Celebrate! (Gibbs)
I’ll be heading out the door momentarily to get downtown for the ceremonial first train and celebration of the opening of the Portland Streetcar extension to Gibbs St. Join us at 11am today for the official ceremonies (read speeches) at Gibbs and Moody (below the Tram landing tower). Or come back to the same location…
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Faster Streetcar?
Over at Transit Sleuth, Adron has published his thoughts on how to make the Portland Streetcar faster. Signal pre-emption at every intersection. That’s a pretty clear statement about priorities!
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Streetcar Ridership Survey
Regular readers will know that one of the transportation hats I wear is chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Portland Streetcar. Following up on the spot-check fare inspections we’ve been doing, we’re looking at fare policy for the Streetcar. As part of that exercise, we want to understand ridership and fare purchase patterns. We’ve…
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Conservative Reappraisal
Hat tip to Roland who posted this report over at CommissionerSam.com. I’ve just finished reading the report (“Does Transit Work? A Conservative Reappraisal”). The main idea is to assess the success of transit in not in terms of total trips, but rather in terms of those categories of trips for which it is competitive (the…
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Sport Columnist Conflates Streetcar, Trailblazers
I wouldn’t even have seen it if a reader had not e-mailed me a link, since I don’t regulary read the sports page, but yesterday Dwight Jaynes’ commentary in the Portland Tribune suggests that the “keep Portland wierd” foks are winning, wondering when we’ll stop building Streetcars and start rattling Paul Allen’s cage about keeping…