Trolley (construction) picture of the day
I had to go downtown this afternoon to pick up some tea from Kobos, and I decided to loop back along MLK to see how much construction had been finished on the latest trolley line. Two blocks of MLK were barricaded off, and contained one block of completed streetcar track and another block of streetcar track tucked to bed under a plastic sheet while the concrete slab dries.
This won’t give a one-seat ride from the suburbs to the new development along MLK/Grand, but it will make it a lot easier to get to instead of depending on the #6 bus. (And, who knows, perhaps someone involved with fleet acquisition at Tri-Met will start pushing for lightweight interurbans that can run on the lighter-weight roadbed that they’re using for the downtown trolley line, and then start running suburb-to-central-city-loop trains.)