Portland Streetcar
9 posts
While HOP's first year was better than other systems, it is a system that still has room for improvement.
32% of Streetcar riders make less than $30k a year. If it weren't for overtime, I'd be close to being one of them.
While it may seem like there isn't much to a streetcar, the view is very different once you get above or below one of the trains. Each train has several hundred, if not thousand parts to maintain.
First things first: Portland Streetcar didn’t ask me to do it. It’s not an official port. It’s not even fully functional. I don’t know if they know about it or not, but I’m leaning towards they might now. Anyway, yesterday (Friday, 18 December) was a slow day for me. I […]
As previously mentioned, my thoughts on Portland’s public transit would be getting their own post. Now, to be fair, I’ve lived in Portland for just under three weeks. I haven’t seen public transit here in all four seasons yet, nor do I know anything about how things used to be. […]
Yes, I am still alive, and so is the blog despite any errors you may have seen for a couple of days… (if you didn’t, just pretend nothing happened.) That said, I’ve been extremely busy this last – wow – month, as of tomorrow. Busy enough to forget it’s also […]