June 2007 - Posts

Hats off to Tri-met! They just went up in my book!

Read "Making Friends with Tri-met" over on the Iraq Names Project. Read More
posted Friday, June 29, 2007 4:15 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Protesters halt CN, VIA Rail traffic

"CN's difficulties with First Nations protesters who have taken to blockading the railroad's busy Toronto-Montreal main line continue. CN today halted freight operations and embargoed all traffic after reportedly armed protesters erected a blockade on Read More
posted Friday, June 29, 2007 2:32 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Even Amanda Congdon Knows Ethanol is NOT GOOD.

Just watch it.  Why are we still pushing this crap?! Read More
posted Friday, June 29, 2007 12:15 AM by adron | 2 Comments
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Woohooo BART!

Tri-met just hit a record and to follow that up BART just made a record doozy of a 100,000,000 trips so far this year!  Fooey for those poor pro-road and anti-transit zealots, it seems people are voting more and more with their own actions and just Read More
posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:39 AM by adron | 2 Comments
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I Was Wrong Recently

I quoted the old statistic of 90,000 rides on MAX.  Well Tri-met just issued new returns on a recent record breaking 110,300 rides during the weekdays!  Which leaves just the 3 lines that MAX traverses carrying a huge percentage of Tri-met ridership, Read More
posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:16 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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NARP's Rail Map and National Plan

Not that I have any idea where NARP would plan to get the money (I guess we "could" leave Iraq and pay for it) but they have some grand plans they've put forward about building a national rail system that would be more comparable to the interstate system.  Read More
posted Monday, June 25, 2007 11:06 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Union Pacific Promises to Free Amtrak?

An interesting article popped up about Amtrak getting a promise from Union Pacific that it would receive only "a maximum number of minutes of ‘slow order’ delays".  This should be interesting to see if the delays truly decrease the percentage of Read More
posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:07 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Amtrak Progress! YEAH!

A few months back I almost blew a gasket with regards to the mess that seating had become on the south bound Amtrak Cascades on Friday afternoon.  On both the #507 3pm departure and the later #509 6pm departure when boarding the train the process Read More
posted Friday, June 15, 2007 6:00 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Darwin in Full Effect (TAC-PDX)

South bound on train #507 just out of Centralia an idiot who was walking on the tracks was removed from the living.  The ensuing outpour of everything from sympathy to camaraderie in the face of our situation was impressive and scary.  Not a Read More
posted Friday, June 15, 2007 5:45 PM by adron | 1 Comments

Rail Progress

California's Capitol Corridor trains carried 141,789 passengers in May, a new monthly record, eclipsing the former record of 127,572 riders set in April. The Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority operates 32 trains a day between Sacramento and the Bay Read More
posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:55 PM by adron | 3 Comments
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Amtrak Superliner Sleeper 3D Virtual Tour!

I was messing around checking out various things on the Amtrak site planning to schedule some more trips for work and other related tasks and I realized they added an awesome Superliner Sleeper 3D Virtual Tour.  If you haven't ridden on a sleeping Read More
posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:59 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Trip of the Month #2 (PDX-TAC)

9Last trip was to Centralia, now I'm back sitting on the train this Sunday afternoon preparing to depart on the Amtrak Cascades #508 to Tacoma.  I have another work trip to trek to.  So far at 6:05pm the train is almost completely full and we Read More
posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:56 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Chehalis Steam and Museum

The Trip To Headed down to the station a little on the early side at 7:40am.  My head was spinning from the mere fact that I haven't gotten up this early in over 4 weeks.  I walked to 18th and Lovejoy and stood pondering at the streetcar stop Read More
posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 12:44 AM by adron | 0 Comments
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First Thursday in Portland

I worked a good solid day today, got a lot accomplished, and then did a good bit of business over beer after work.  With all that I had first Thursday burbites to entertain me.  Burbites, also known as "Suburbanites", I've grown to find are Read More
posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:08 PM by adron | 0 Comments
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Bicycling Finally

So I started bicycling regularly in ole' Portland.  Got me thinking and digging.  One of the things I found that should absolutely be implemented here in Portland is the grade separated bike lanes.  Basically move the parked cars into the Read More
posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:32 PM by adron | 2 Comments
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Ethanol Pt. 2

Another 2 very positive points on the notion of Ethanol in the US. The money stays in country and creates a source of fuel that is produced in country (theoretically of course, who knows who owns the corn farms these days). It burns with less pollutants Read More
posted Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:19 PM by adron | 3 Comments
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