Portland Transport

Category: Milwaukie LRT

  • The marvelous multicolored Milwaukie MAX

    Lost amidst the controversy around the Milwaukie MAX project, has been a little operational detail that many of us transport geeks care passionately about…the color. The project has long been informally referred to as the Orange Line. While TriMet doesn’t use such terminology in its project literature, it appears as a big orange line on…

  • More from CPI: Calls on Congress to block MLR, but still build the bridge

    Our friends at Cascade Policy Institute have been busy, with a letter being sent to House Transportation chair John Mica (R-FL) asking that funding for Milwaukie Light Rail be deleted from future federal appropriations. While Mica and the GOP is known to be targeting discretionary funding, including infrastructure, as part of budget cutting exercises, whether…

  • “Bridge School”

    (Updated July 5th – Original version contained a typo. If you have embedded or posted a link to the original video, please update your links. Thank you.) Just prior to yesterday’s groundbreaking ceremony (video here) for the new transit bridge over the Willamette river, Rob Barnard, TriMet’s director of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project, gave…

  • TriMet Bridge Groundbreaking Event Video

    Here is the full-length video (30min) from today’s TriMet press event held at OMSI, marking the official start of construction for the first new Portland-area Willamette river crossing in approx. 40 years. This video features the complete remarks, with a few occasional extra shots edited over the top. (Updated July 5th – Original version contained…

  • What’s Up with the FTA and PMLR?

    Update: TriMet says they were not expecting funding in this round, and that the project is in the President’s FY12 Budget, which is when they expect the first funding. Original Post: The FTA released their latest round of New Starts funding, and Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail was not on the list. According to some sources, $200M…