Knocking about Portland

Visiting Portland Oregon, this time for a real visit, and spent most of my day wondering around all aspects of the city center and riding various forms of public transportation. Near the end of the day I took the west lightrail line to Orenco Station (pictures to come later), a new Urbanist development often written about in various media as an example of Transit Oriented Developement (TND). On the ride back from Orenco I found myself wondering off inside my mind. I realized that not only would it be great to live in a city where the public transportation system worked and was more developed but that I had also engaged in 6 forms on public transit in one day. In the order that they occured, car, jet, light rail, bus, foot, streetcar in one day. Today, as I think of it, I could have hopped a public bike to ride around and have taking a ride on the Portland Tram and I could have probably set a life time record. I wonder if Portland has a ferry system.

In Portland, all public transit seemed to be running on about a 10 minute skedule. It made for easy access to all part of the city. Well off to check on Art museum and then off to some city parks with hopefully a view of Mount Hood.