Posts with tag: Portland
18 posts
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.
While it doesn't feel like this second year in Portland went by quickly, 2017 definitely feels like it went by quickly.
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 […]
I almost didn’t notice (and probably would not have if I were busier than I currently am), but last week marked that I’ve now lived in Portland for three months. In those three months I’ve been busy enough to nearly forget my own birthday, I’ve looped around Portland on Streetcar […]
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 […]