Recent content by Willbridge

Good idea! It'd be interesting, too, to know if ODOT has done more than having an attractive website and buying some MSN ads. For readers unfamiliar with the Portland Rose Festival, it's focused on the second biggest floral parade in the U.S. and with over a week of events it generates...

Oregon DOT has refreshed their Cascades website. I'll bet that till now few people knew that the corridor trains are the official railroad of the Portland Rose Festival...

This type of comparison was popular during the 1970's. The simplest fallacy that kept occurring was the seating density assumed, but rarely footnoted. The other long-range fallacy was in assuming that all modes were used for the same purposes. That was discussed above, but beyond today's...

These cities were previously served by the Yellowhead Highway route of Greyhound Lines of Canada. The last rail passenger service was a Railiner from North Battleford into Edmonton in the morning and back in the evening. That's if you don't count the Royal Train for Queen Elizabeth and Prince...

ColoRail photo.

They need to get it cleaned and turned ASAP.

Note to moderators - yes, this is from elsewhere, but it's intended for better understanding of ground corridors. Hanover central bus station to Berlin central bus station (which is on the west end) on the autobahn A-2 is 171 miles (276 km), the same as Portland curbside (near Union Station) to...

2014 - Brad borrowed a passenger's guitar and entertained passengers waiting for Train 5. My favorite Brad story is that when he was working the Cascades he talked two women out of having a fight as the train approached the Canadian border. We had visions of trying to figure out which...

That explains why the earthquake warning system was triggered. ;)

The bus schedules are shown in the corridor timetables. For buses connecting at Bakersfield, they're in the San Joaquin folder. I don't see El Segundo, but perhaps someone here can offer an alternative. My surmise is that as rail transit lines have been extended, the non-Union Station bus...

Here's the PDX to SEA line-up for Sunday, April 14th as of Wednesday night. 0645 AT $37/$87 0700 FB $32 0820 AT $53/$87 0830 FB $33 1040 FB $35 1040 AT $59/SO 1200 FB $35 1410 AT $66/SO 1500 FB $42 1556 AT SO/--/$211 1755 AT $47/$72 1910 FB $34 1925 AT $37/$87 2115 FB $33 And here's PDX to...

In 1917, almost every one of these lines had passenger service, some of it electrified -- and the state highway program was just getting started.

It would be more realistic to compare long-distance sleeper travel with motor homes.

Here's the PDX to SEA line-up for Sunday, April 7th as of Thursday night. Note that Flix has restored their $3.99 service charge, included here, after trying a $4.50 service charge. Also, Flix has switched to fixed bottom rates for advance sales on the Cascades corridor. Weekday PDX<>SEA...

It doesn't seem to have a bay or two for charter or Thruway or intercity buses.