Adams sees web of streetcars (Portland, OR)

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/118498652393360.xml&coll=7

Could you imagine a streetcar line up Northeast Sandy Boulevard?

And how about Hawthorne, Killingsworth and Woodstock, just to name a few more?

The Portland Streetcar, long considered a downtown transit and redevelopment tool, could reach disparate parts of the city under a vision described on Friday by City Commissioner Sam Adams in a speech to the Portland City Club. The commissioner oversees the Portland Office of Transportation, which is developing a 30-year rail transit plan for the city, with implications for the metro area.

"What would Portland look like if we implemented solutions to global warming and peak oil?" Adams said. "It would look a lot like Portland circa 1920, a time when the main means of motion were your feet, streetcars and bikes."

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