In the latest issue of The Guardian, columnist Peter Preston writes about Cascadia, in A World Away From Texas [can I get an atheist amen!?]

I’m pretty excited about what the Federal High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program contains for Portland and the Northwest.

The Portland Timbers face the Vancouver Whitecaps in the USL Division 1 semifinals. The first leg of the 2 game series begins Thursday, October 1st in Vancouver B.C.
The teams face again in Portland on October 4th at 4pm at PGE Park in the second leg. Buy your tickets now!
The surprising Whitecaps, the 7th seed, upended [...]

The much anticipated direct Portland to Vancouver, BC train service is finally here. Well, it’s here starting on August 19th.

OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) announced today that the long awaited second daily Amtrak Cascades train between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. will begin service on Wednesday, August 19, 2009.
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Update: The Tyee has published a three part series by Christine McLaren, of which Why Portland Beats Vancouver was the first installment. Installment number two is Portland’s Bicycle Brilliance. Part three: Portland’s Progress on Homelessness.
I’ve never been to Vancouver, B.C., but it’s been on my shortlist of places to visit for quite some [...]

Update: The second train starts running August 19th.
Starting in August, two Amtrak Cascade trains a day will make the cross border journey to Vancouver, BC. This means that, finally, Vancouver bound Portlanders won’t have to transfer to a bus or wait until the next day for the final leg of the trip [...]

Saturday May 30th will be a lovely day for a tailgate. And then at 7pm the Vancouver Whitecaps visit PGE Park to face the Timbers in the teams’ second match up of the year. Vancouver, perennially a good team, is one point behind Portland in the standings. This will be a [...]

You’ve probably seen bits of this before, but here it is all together in a 30 minute production.
StreetFilms is a project of the New York City Street Renaissance, “a collection of non-profits geared towards re-imagining the city’s public spaces and making our streets safer for pedestrians, bicycles and non-vehicular modes of transportation.” Portland [...]

Update 7/6/09: Finally: One day train service from Portland to Vancouver, BC
Summer of 2008 Portlanders will be able to take the train up to Vancouver, BC without having to stop overnight in Seattle (and vice versa). At least that’s what this article seems to be saying:

When the new service begins operations, Amtrak Cascades will [...]