Portland gets $500k for Central Eastside train study
The railroad crossings in Portland’s Central Eastside are a recurrent irritation for the people who live, work or commute through the area.
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The railroad crossings in Portland’s Central Eastside are a recurrent irritation for the people who live, work or commute through the area.
Anyone who frequents inner southeast Portland is familiar with the persistent—yet unpredictable—freight train bottlenecks near railroad crossings in the area. Union Pacific freight trains rolling into town via the Brooklyn Intermodal Rail Yard cause such notable logjams in Portland's Central Eastside that more than 1,500 people signed a Change.org petition asking the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) to do something about it. Now, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT),...
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