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January 23rd, 2012 Sights | Tweets Listen: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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 [...] September 23rd, 2011 Guitars, cellos, saxophones, toy pianos and more, the Streetcar Mobile Music Fest featured musicians performing aboard various streetcars throughout the night. Click the link to listen to and see what it was like when I went along for the ride. [...] September 16th, 2011 This week’s installment of Along for the Ride, my series of weekly chronicles of Portland, OR-area transit lines. is an audio postcard from a rush hour trip aboard the MAX Blue Line to Hillsboro. In a future edition, I’ll explore the rest of the line, from Downtown Portland, East to Gresham. [...] August 26th, 2011 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 Today marks the public launch of “Along for the ride,”* a new series of mass transit adventure chronicles on Lascher at Large. Watch an Audio Slideshow | Explore the Map | See the Photo Gallery The concept: explore Portland as seen from the metropolitan region’s transit lines. Each week, through a highly [...] May 3rd, 2010 Last Spring, I wrote a commentary about my personal experiences with transit in Los Angeles. An assignment for a class, it was something of a companion to the reporting I’d done for my master’s project, the work that became “R We There Yet.” I was proud of the final piece that emerged, as I [...] December 23rd, 2009 Read More A story still in transit A story still in transit Though much has happened in Los Angeles’ transportation scene since this story was completed last Spring, the central challenges discussed here largely remain the same. Some light edits have been made to the text to reflect some of the changes. More [...] October 14th, 2009 A brief note: if you haven’t looked around the site lately please take some time to look at my updated, categorized portfolio page. More updates to come soon. After an evening in Pasadena I board the Gold line at Fillmore Station. I complete a phone call as the train heads southwest, [...] June 10th, 2009 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 [...] |
     
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