Portland light rail system map, 1923 united railroads before the Bay Bridge was

before the Bay Bridge was built

His system was vastly superior to all others that it set the standard for urban transportation for decades

the freeway map I drew is deliberately the opposite: it's clean

) Hocken lost the election

under pressure from federal antitrust enforcers

Portland light rail system map, 1923 united railroads before the Bay Bridge wasModern Portland and the Willamette Valley have a large, successful light rail system built in the late 20th century. But it was even bigger in the 1920s, when it was owned by five competing railway operators. (The system went all the way to Corvallis and Eugene, 100 miles away.) This was only feasible before modern roads. As buses, paved roads and cars got better, there was simply less need to have a 100 mile long interurban rail system. The system