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New Trimet Rail Map
I was out walking downtown this weekend when I noticed that Trimet has updated the rail system map to include the pending Orange Line route. I snapped a photo with my camera and while the news is nothing worth getting excited over, it does provide some changes to the existing map that make different regions a…
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Getting Ready for the Orange Line
TriMet is beginning to look at how it will adjust bus service in the Milwaukie/Oregon City corridor in conjunction with the opening of the Orange Line in 2015. You can see the proposal and weigh in here. I’m not intimately familiar with the corridor, but the major impact seems to be the truncation of the…
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Your Questions For Neil, “Round 5”, Part 1 – High-Capacity Projects
Last Wednesday, Chris sat down with TriMet’s Neil McFarlane for a discussion focused on your questions. This has become a sort of annual tradition for Portland Transport, and this year we were very pleased to be hosted by the Portland Opera – the Opera headquarters is located on the east bank of the Willamette just…
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TriMet to start bus service planning/outreach in SE and around Milwaukie MAX
Title says it all. TriMet is now starting its planning and public outreach activities in preparation of the opening of Portland-Milwaukie MAX next year, and is looking for public input, particularly on the question of how bus service should be reorganized around PMLR. A set of guidelines for the process can be found here. The…
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Orange Line Sighting
Guest contributor David Brandt is a regular reader. Earlier this year there was discussion on this blog about how TriMet would designate and serve the new Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail line (see “TriMet Confirms That Orange Line Will Go Through Downtown After All, But Details Still Unclear, April 17, 2013″). A clue has recently appeared that…