January 23rd, 2012 by Bill Lascher Sights | Tweets
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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 [...]
September 16th, 2011 by Bill Lascher 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 by Bill Lascher 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 by Bill Lascher 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 [...]
May 3rd, 2010 by Bill Lascher
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 by Bill Lascher
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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 [...]
February 20th, 2009 by Bill Lascher I’m in the midst of preparing some posts about the Expanding Vision of Sustainable Mobility summit hosted this week by the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In doing so, I’m semi-procrastinating by skimming long-ago bookmarked blog entries and Web sites I set aside for reference in my master’s project exploring the possibility of [...]
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