January 23rd, 2012

Along for the Ride: Line 14

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For my latest edition of the Along for the Ride series of transit chronicles I rode Line 14 from Downtown Portland to Lents, and back again. Along the way I stopped for lunch at a taqueria I’d once [...]

August 26th, 2011

Along for the Ride: Island Time Aboard the 85

Welcome to the second week of Along for the Ride, my series of weekly chronicles of Portland, OR-area transit lines. If you haven’t already, check out the first edition and if you like the series, please spread the word, or even cover my bus fare.

This week, I woke early Wednesday morning intending to [...]

August 19th, 2011

Along for the Ride: Going Live on the 75

Today marks the public launch of “Along for the ride,”* a new series of mass transit adventure chronicles on Lascher at Large.

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The concept: explore Portland as seen from the metropolitan region’s transit lines. Each week, through a highly [...]

June 10th, 2009

McCourts Keep Dodging the Trolley

I have to admit Streetsblog beat me to posting a picture depicting this sign (others may have as well), although I took this picture May 29.

Back when I was editor of the Ventura County Reporter and still penning (or is it “keying”) the Fir & Main blog, I wrote enthusiastically about the possibility [...]