Like nearly every city, the greatest streets and neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon exist where the long-abandoned electric streetcars ran. Today we're touring Portland's east side to find remnants of that age and talk about why its lingering impact is so important.

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Special thanks to Cameron Booth at transitmap.net for use of his 1915 Portland electric streetcar line map! I strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with his site if you haven't -- Cam does amazing work. You can buy this particular piece as a print at https://transitmap.net/store/product/...

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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
- My Video On Downtown Portland:    • Portland Is a Bit of a Disaster (But ...  

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Resources:
- Learn more about Coach Sam Balto's bike bus: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...
- Portland Neighborhood Greenways network map https://www.portland.gov/sites/defaul...

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Images
- "Helmet cam captures Portland uproar after Taylor ruling" via Reuters
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- Oaks Rink By Another Believer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Car #700, Sellwood - Portland General Electric Company, Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC- SA) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

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