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Surf the Streetcar
After adding the Streetcar to Transit Board last week, it’s now available on Transit Surfer. Check it out.
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My (non-)Trip on Streetcar
I had a first last night. The Streetcar was too full to get on board. It was about 5:30 at 10th and Couch, trying to get back to Northwest. The train was shoulder-to-shoulder and about three people got off. About 15 people were waiting to get on, and about six of us wouldn’t fit (I…
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Streetcar Comes to Transit Board(tm)
We’re delighted to announce that Transit Board™ Real Time Info now includes information from Portland Streetcar. We recently received permission to use data from NextBus, Streetcar’s provider for next arrival information. We’re busily integrating this data into our tools, and it should show up on Transit Surfer soon as well. Remember, we’re happy to build…
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Anticipation is Making Me Wait
During my trip to the Czech Republic last fall, I got to see frames being welded for our next three Streetcars. We have some photos of recent progress, they’re further along now! Notice the new colors we’re adding to our palette, Golden Yellow and Apple Green. Look for them on Portland Streets in the fall,…
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Standing Room Only
Portland Streetcar does a ridership sample each quarter. We were all a bit overwhelmed when the summer counts came back and said we had 7800 riders each weekday. Hold on to that hanger strap, the fall (Sep-Nov) counts are in and we’re at 9,000 weekday riders. Saturday ridership is down slightly (6,600 down from 7,600…