A cool Portland map
Check out the street layout in 1955, before the freeways, on this bus route map.
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On the wall of Oregon Blueprint is a wonderful map of Portland...
Early 1900 if I recall correctly
Posted by tankfixer | January 10, 2012 8:46 PM
Interesting that the "Beaumont" line ran east-west on Siskiyou St. between 57th and 46th Avenues. That's a narrow residential street the garbage trucks can barely drive down now. Maybe the buses were smaller then or on-street parking was limited.
Posted by Eric | January 10, 2012 9:45 PM
It's notable how few buses travel north and south on the East side past 39th Ave. There isn't a bus route going up/down 82nd north of Powell Blvd.
North of Powell Blvd. if you want to go north or south there isn't anything from 39th all the way until you get out to 92nd.
I realize that most of the routes seem oriented to bringing people in and out of downtown and I'm only in my 40's and wasn't around then. But I'm curious: do you think the route layout had to do with redlining and the racial makeup of the neighborhoods? People didn't want to make it easy to move around from certain neighborhoods to others?
Posted by Bingo | January 10, 2012 10:09 PM
Also note the location of the Morrison Bridge, which then connected to SW Morrison Street. (It was replaced in 1958.)
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | January 10, 2012 10:38 PM
do you think the route layout had to do with redlining...
JK: I don't know the timing, but most jobs were downtown at one time. NW Portland had a lot more industrial. Like those warehouses converted into expensive tax free condos near the pearl.
Down towns are no longer the major employment centers of a region. More like 20% of the jobs. Which is why transit doesn't work very well - one end of the average trip is not in one location. Destinations are now all over the place.
Thanks
JK
Posted by jim karlock | January 10, 2012 10:46 PM
I can't find César Chávez.
Posted by Allan L. | January 11, 2012 6:07 AM
Note that the routes of PTC (later "Rose City Transit") don't go much outside of city limits, with the exception of the streetcar lines to Oregon City and out the Springwater line. The suburban areas were served by the "Blue Bus" lines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bus_lines_(Oregon)
Posted by PMG | January 11, 2012 6:12 AM
Nice to see my old neighborhood before I-5 came through and completely obliterated it. It wasn't just African-American families that were displaced, hundreds of European-American families lost their homes and neighborhoods as well.
Posted by YouKidsGetOffMyGrass | January 11, 2012 1:08 PM
Downtown must have been much more attractive without the I-405 devastation.
Posted by jj | January 12, 2012 3:57 PM