Replication By Other Transit Systems
Organizations from other places have come to tour the system, hoping to replicate it in their hometowns. In 2005, Toronto Transit Commission officials visited Portland to evaluate the Škoda streetcars for possible use on Toronto's streetcar system, as the smaller size is suitable for the city's extensive street-running mixed-traffic operations. The official website for Tucson's Sun Link streetcar system (under construction with operation scheduled to start late in 2013) includes a document written by the city of Portland on "Portland Streetcar Development Oriented Transit"
Read more about this topic: Portland Streetcar
Famous quotes containing the words transit and/or systems:
“My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)