Sneak Peek: Wed April 24, 2024
Added 2024-04-24 12:53:17 +0000 UTCNew video! First of all, thanks to Cam Booth, who has had a side business making alternative universe transit maps and recreations of historic maps using a modern style, and sells prints at his site transitmap.net -- Cam and I were actually co-workers at the WSP office in Portland when I was a consultant there. (And yes, he makes fantastic proposal and report graphics, haha.)
Anyway, Cam gave me permission to use his modern recreation of the 1915 Portland electric streetcar map to help illustrate the locations in today's video, which is really all about the urban fabric that the long-demolished historic streetcars left behind on Portland's east side.
Question for today. Is this something you ever think about as you move through your city? Why you gravitate towards certain streets and neighborhoods, and how rail transportation investments of the past (and the certainty that rail seemingly ensured) gave rise to the kind of urban design and mixed use people enjoy being around today? Can you FEEL the history of a place as you move through it?
Happy Wednesday!
Comments
Any cities putting trams/steetcars back in use in the US in a meaningful way?
Lorraine and Baxter Williams
2024-05-07 00:40:31 +0000 UTCIn New Orleans, any wide corridor with a grassy median, or neutral ground as we call it, used to have a streetcar line running down it. Like you point out in the video, these streets are destinations and often public gathering areas for parades. These days, busses serve these corridors but I always think of the historic streetcars while in transit.
Nathan D
2024-04-30 02:18:53 +0000 UTC
