Video by punkrawker from Portland transit blog punkrawker blogs on.

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

The author of Planologie, a blog dedicated to considering the ways we live, build, move, and think, recently spent a few days in Portland, after also visiting Vancouver and Seattle.

For the next installment of Poetry in Motion, Literary Arts is asking for our help selecting the poems.

Via The Overhead Wire

A video by a recent visitor to our fine town.

Nifty promotional video for United Streetcar, subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works, and only manufacturer of modern streetcars in the country.

The SP 4449, the star of Portland’s National Train Day celebration last May, arrives back in Portland today after a summer tour of the Midwest.

Portland began its divergence from the typical American city’s transportation model in the 70s, when federal highway dollars were diverted to light rail construction. Since then 300 miles of bike lanes, several more light rail lines, the streetcar, and changes to land use patterns have contributed to a transportation transformation.
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Transit blogger EMS at Light rail and I: a love story 28 years in the making…:-) needs your help! She’s compiling a list: 100 reasons not to have valid fare on TriMet . . .
Some of the highlights of the list as it now stands (100-67):
92. The TVM [Ticket Vending Machine] is for left [...]