Topic: streetcar

I see Streetcar Smith's still at it. Now that Earl the Pearl introduced a bill in Congress, all of a sudden the feds are going to fork over big bucks for the east side streetcar. Uh huh. Oh, and get this -- now Tri-Met isn't going to pay any of the operating deficit of the thing. It's all going to come from the city. And where is the city going to get the money? Smith... says no decision...

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Remember how we all got indignant over the jerk cop who parked his car in a streetcar rail lane while he grabbed himself a nosh from Pita Pit? I still plan to track down the story on that visit to Stumptown by the bucktoothed ones in blue, but in some old Portland police conduct news, the new news is that a woman is hitting the City up for $300,000 in damages for having been asked by John Wood...

Saturday before last before I walked over the Burnside and Morrison bridges, I rode the streetcar to Jamison Square so that I could take photos of folks enjoying a sunny Portland afternoon along with a unique fountain. The water's deep and the fountain's flowing while children play, their adults relaxing in the sun. The water's less deep here. Have you got an idea what has happened to...