Portland Streetcar (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Portland Streetcar is a streetcar system in Portland, Oregon that opened in 2001 and serves areas surrounding downtown. It is currently a single line that is almost 4 miles (6.4 km) long and has about 12,000 boardings per day, but construction of a second line is underway. The Portland Streetcar is the first new streetcar system in the United States since World War II to use modern vehicles. Like some of Portland's original streetcar lines, redevelopment has been a major (and successful) goal of the project. Like trains on the heavier-duty MAX light rail network which serves the broader Portland metropolitan area, streetcars are operated and maintained by TriMet personnel.