January 23rd, 2012

Along for the Ride: Line 14

A view of the 14 from on board during my Along for the Ride series of transit chroniclesSights | Tweets

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September 16th, 2011

Along for the Ride: Max Blue Line 1 -- Hillsboro

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.

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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

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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:

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May 3rd, 2010

In Transit

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

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December 23rd, 2009

R We There Yet? Re-evaluating Los Angeles's Transit Future

The silhouette of a conductor on L.A.'s gold line as he looks out on the tracks of the Gold Line on the day of the opening of an expansion of the light rail line to East L.A.

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February 20th, 2009

Adaptive Reuse: Parking Meters to Bike Racks

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 Read the rest of Adaptive Reuse: Parking Meters to Bike Racks