Dave Knows: Portland

Transit Maps of the World, due to be released next Tuesday, is already available and stashed at the Quimby warehouse according to Powells (no sign of it yet at the library).
Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth.
If it’s comprehensive, [...]

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Debbie Moost, a visitor from North Carolina, enjoys a recent trip to Portland:
The News and Observer - Foodie finds joy in ‘eatin’ town’
So in Portland, I let the forks fall where they may. Not being able to let go completely, I still checked with the usual suspects — food writer friends and online chat groups [...]

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In April it was the New York Times’ 36 Hours in Portland, Ore. Then in May the LA Times jumped on the bandwagon with a mass-transit trek through Portland’s singular sites (oh, and don’t forget their Pearl paean last December: New Luster in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon).
Our neighbors to the north have also [...]

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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 depart from Vancouver, B.C. in the morning, travel to Seattle, and [...]

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