Transit to the MAX - A Portland History: Episode 15

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Timestamps

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:36 The News
  • 00:36 Amtrak Cascades returns to Vancouver ^[1]
  • 02:11 HART begins testing ^[2]
• 04:05 Portland's population and geography
• 07:17 Fun facts about Portland
• 08:43 Homelessness
• 10:16 History ^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [19]}
  • 10:25 The streetcar (of course)
  • 12:19 Bridges
  • 14:42 Electric streetcars
  • 16:33 The Portland Railway, Light and Power Company
  • 17:33 Gas tax
  • 18:09 Fall of the streetcar
  • 19:36 Streetcar ridership
  • 20:15 Trolleybuses
  • 20:42 Bus route naming
  • 22:31 WWII
  • 23:25 Robert Moses
  • 24:50 Freeway construction
  • 26:03 Highway removal on the Willamette
  • 27:50 Mount Hood freeway
  • 29:09 Transit-oriented thinking
  • 30:23 Freeway opposition
  • 33:50 TriMet
  • 35:47 Improving service
  • 38:05 The downtown transit mall ^[7]
  • 39:06 Troubles in the '70s and '80s
  • 39:39 The MAX
  • 42:10 Westside MAX
  • 43:45 Airport & Interstate MAX
  • 45:25 Portland Streetcar & beyond
• 47:33 Today ^{[14] [15] [17]}
  • 47:58 MAX Yellow Line
  • 48:50 MAX Orange Line
  • 49:46 MAX Green Line
  • 51:28 The Steel Bridge
  • 52:00 MAX Red Line
  • 52:32 MAX Blue Line
  • 53:28 The Streetcar
  • 53:56 It goes everywhere
  • 54:58 Ridership & modeshare ^[3]
  • 56:11 FX2-Division ^[3]
  • 58:44 Bus service
  • 59:03 The Streetcar
• 1:00:44 A will to do better
• 1:02:06 Challenges
  • 1:02:21 Ridership because of the pandemic
  • 1:02:31 Crippling operator shortage
  • 1:03:11 Safety for operators
  • 1:04:45 Pay for operators
  • 1:06:05 Steel Bridge capacity
  • 1:08:14 Speed downtown ^[3]
  • 1:09:33 Coverage in outlying areas
  • 1:10:12 Connections to the north
• 1:11:01 The future ^{[4] [6]}
  • 1:11:18 Southwest Corridor light rail ^[5]
  • 1:12:26 Red Line improvement project
  • 1:12:42 MAX tunnel ^[18]
  • 1:15:27 Light rail plans
  • 1:16:28 Streetcar extension
  • 1:16:56 I-5 bridge
  • 1:18:06 The future is bright
• 1:20:05 Outro

References & notes

1. [1] Mass Transit: Amtrak Cascades resumes service to Vancouver, BC
2. [2] Mass Transit: HART begins trial running on Honolulu rail line
3. [3] PBOT: Enhanced Transit Corridors Plan
4. [4] BikePortland: In bid for federal funding, Metro shares list of regional transit project priorities
5. [5] TriMet: Southwest Corridor Light Rail Project
6. [6] TriMet: Unified Service Enhancement Plan
7. [7] American Planning Association: 5th and 6th Avenues – Portland Transit Mall: Portland, Oregon
8. [8] TriMet: History
9. [9] TriMet: Making History (interactive)
10. [10] TriMet: Making History (PDF)
11. [11] The TriMet Story
12. [12] Oregon Encyclopedia: Portland streetcar system
13. [13] Portland Streetcar: Streetcar History
14. [14] Wikipedia: MAX Light Rail
15. [15] Wikipedia: Portland Streetcar
16. [16] Wikipedia: C-Tran (Washington)
17. [17] WES Commuter Rail
18. [18] Metro: The MAX Tunnel Study
19. [19] Wikipedia: TriMet
20. [20] C-Tran
21. [21] C-Tran: The Vine Schedules