SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, September 2009. Kodak TMY.
Portland really is a transportation city. It seems that we can never have enough different modes of transportation, much less use them as officially intended. We have light rail that behaves like a metro, commuter trains trying to behave like light rail, and last but not least …
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10th Avenue
Chairs on the Bus Mall
A brief homage to my friend Scott, who will never live down his association with chairs. From the newly refurbished TriMet Bus Mall in Portland, Oregon, September 2009.
The Seattle Bus Challenge
It began with, as usual, a Monday lunch. Dan, Portland blogger, avowed transit geek, and ideas guy, had a question: were transit systems in the northwest well developed enough that a person could ride from Portland to Seattle, purely by using local busses? No Greyhound, Gray line, Amtrak, or charter systems. True, public busses.
For a …
Review: Street Smart
Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Gloria Ohland and Shelley Poticha. Reconnecting America, 436 14th St., Suite 1005, Oakland, CA 94612; www.reconnectingamerica.org; 10 x 11.8 in; trade paperback; 92 pages, 82 color and 8 b/w photos, 19 illustrations, 3 maps; $25.00
In today’s American public transit scene, the word “streetcar” …
Morning rush, portland
Morning Rush, Portland, 2007; watercolor on paper, approxamately 16 x 25 inches.
Here is the jumping off point. Me being me, I didn’t quite paint it in weekly, zen-like meditative days as I had planned. Noooo. Of course not. Every electronic device was still up and running, there were papers tossed everywhere, and I couldn’t …