Like nearly every city, the greatest streets and neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon exist where the longabandoned electric streetcars ran. Today we're touring Portland's east side to find remnants of that age and talk about why its lingering impact is so important.



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Special thanks to Cameron Booth at transitmap.net for use of his 1915 Portland electric streetcar line map! I strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with his site if you haven't Cam does amazing work. You can buy this particular piece as a print at https://transitmap.net/store/product/...



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Resources:
Learn more about Coach Sam Balto's bike bus: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...
Portland Neighborhood Greenways network map https://www.portland.gov/sites/defaul...



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"Helmet cam captures Portland uproar after Taylor ruling" via Reuters
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Car #700, Sellwood Portland General Electric Company, Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial, ShareAlike (BYNC SA) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...



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