Portland’s $148.3 million eastside streetcar project is being delayed by five months, and will now include five streetcars instead of six.
Portland’s $148.3 million eastside streetcar project is being delayed by five months, and will now include five streetcars instead of six.
Manufacturing setbacks tied to producing the only American-made modern streetcar are causing the delays for the most expensive streetcar expansion in U.S. history.
Project officials say they are confident the line will open by its new date, Sept. 21, 2012. They say such “hiccups” are to be expected as an Oregon company breaks new ground producing a modern streetcar, which so far has been made only internationally.
“To reintroduce this industry to the United States, I think … it was never expected that this would be a perfect process,” said Dan Anderson, a transportation spokesman for the city of Portland, which will own the streetcars.
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