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7+ hour shut-down after Portland streetcar hit by truck

By SkyTrain for Surrey press teamPosted on September 9, 2018Posted in Commuter ChaosTagged accident, Economic development, excitement is building, Guildford, Guildford Town Centre, King George Blvd, LRT, LRT issues, LRT problems, max light rail, Newton, Newton Town Centre, pedestrian, pedestrian killed, Portland, Portland MAX, Portland streetcar, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, RCMP, SkyTrain, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level light rail, streetcar, Streetcars, Surrey, Surrey crash, Surrey Light Rail, Surrey LRT, Surrey rapid transit, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford Light Rail, Surrey-Newton-Guildford Light Rail Transit project, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, The Buzzer, TransLink

COMMUTER CHAOS STORY 7+ hour shut-down after Portland streetcar hit by truck FROM: Portland, Oregon – September 5, 2018 For the second time this year, a Portland

Commuter chaos: Crash shuts down Portland MAX LRT during PM rush hour

By SkyTrain for Surrey press teamPosted on July 19, 2018Posted in Commuter ChaosTagged accident, Economic development, excitement is building, Guildford, Guildford Town Centre, King George Blvd, LRT, LRT issues, LRT problems, max light rail, Newton, Newton Town Centre, pedestrian, pedestrian killed, Portland, Portland MAX, Portland streetcar, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, RCMP, SkyTrain, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level light rail, streetcar, Streetcars, Surrey, Surrey crash, Surrey Light Rail, Surrey LRT, Surrey rapid transit, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford Light Rail, Surrey-Newton-Guildford Light Rail Transit project, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, The Buzzer, TransLink

COMMUTER CHAOS STORY Crash shuts down Portland MAX LRT during PM rush hour FROM: Portland, Oregon – July 19, 2018 Just yesterday, Portland’s MAX light rail system was disrupted during the afternoon rush hour after a collision between a MAX LRT train and a truck on the Portland’s Steel Bridge. If a similar incident had […]

Commuter chaos: Portland streetcar shut down for entire day after streetcar derails in crash

By SkyTrain for Surrey press teamPosted on May 25, 2018Posted in Commuter Chaos, In The NewsTagged accident, Economic development, excitement is building, Guildford, Guildford Town Centre, King George Blvd, LRT, LRT issues, LRT problems, max light rail, Newton, Newton Town Centre, pedestrian, pedestrian killed, Portland, Portland MAX, Portland streetcar, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, RCMP, SkyTrain, SkyTrain vs LRT, street-level light rail, streetcar, Streetcars, Surrey, Surrey crash, Surrey Light Rail, Surrey LRT, Surrey rapid transit, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Surrey-Newton-Guildford Light Rail, Surrey-Newton-Guildford Light Rail Transit project, Surrey-Newton-Guildford LRT, The Buzzer, TransLink

COMMUTER CHAOS STORY Portland streetcar lines shut down for entire day after streetcar derails in crash FROM: Portland, Oregon – May 25, 2018 Portland’s streetcar system was put through a full-day shutdown after a collision knocked a streetcar off of the tracks and into multiple other vehicles. If a similar incident had occurred along one of […]

Poor fare revenue and LRT ridership cause free fare zone removal in Portland

By SkyTrain for Surrey press teamPosted on June 18, 2012Posted in Reality CheckTagged bad examples, Bad LRT examples, British Columbia, Canada, Community Impact, competition, competitive transit, Economic development, Economics, Examples, light rail, light rail advocates, Light Rail Transit, light rail transit advocates, limitations, LRT, LRT advocates, LRT fail, LRT failure, max light rail, Metro Vancouver, Metropolitan Area eXpress, misinformation, misleading, OR, Portland, Portland light rail, Portland MAX, Portland MAX Light Rail, Portland MAX LRT, portland transit, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, SkyTrain, SkyTrain for Surrey, Surrey, Surrey transit, Surrey transportation, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, train, transit, transit corruption, TransLink, Transportation, TriMet, vision3 Comments

MEDIA RELEASE – SKYTRAIN FOR SURREY ORIGINAL WRITTEN CONTENT Poor revenue and ridership cause free fare zone removal in Portland FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 18, 2012 – Surrey, BC Light Rail advocates in Surrey love to triumph Portland as a successful example of North American Light Rail Transit implementation. However, there is a side […]

Portland, OR: LRT is so cost-ineffective, unable to operate at promised frequencies

By SkyTrain for Surrey press teamPosted on May 28, 2012Posted in Reality CheckTagged Bombardier Innovia ART, Canada, Canada Line, cars, cascade policy, city of surrey, Community Impact, competition, competitive transit, Economic development, light rail, Light Rail Transit, limitations, LRT, LRT fail, LRT failure, max light rail, Metro Vancouver, Metropolitan Area eXpress, misinformation, misleading, Oregon, plan, Portland, Portland MAX, Portland MAX Light Rail, portland trimet, rail transit, rapid rail transit, Rapid Transit, service intervals, Surrey transportation future, Sustainability, train, transit, TransLink, Transportation, TriMet4 Comments

There were a number of interesting facts pointed out by The Cascade Policy’s John A. Charles, whose research we have cited before (see references #39 and #79), about the Portland MAX in his latest article, called: Transit Hypocrisy. It is notable that he points out that that it has been said that there is a […]