Blog Drought

Its been a week or so since my last post and I apologize. I was in Houston, TX for a few days last week/weekend on business so that took me away from riding MAX. Houston has a light rail system I found while there but I don't think it has a cool name like, MAX, PATH or BART. I think they just call it the "Light Rail".

Portland light rail has been interesting this week to come home to: Steel Bridge is closed.

I almost forgot about it. So now you can ride the MAX to Convention Center and exit to catch a Shuttle bus that will take the Burnside Bridge across the river and drop you at the Chinatown platform. Or ride MAX to the Rose Garden stop and exit there (if you don't get off, the Blue or Red line that you are on will become a Yellow line and head towards the Expo Center) and walk across the bottom of the Steel Bridge. The bottom of the bridge is used by freight trains and has a bike/walk path. This walk takes about 10 mins to get to Chinatown and is much nicer than the Shuttle run I think. The down side: the bottom bridge is a draw bridge and will open for large boats/barges. This sucks cause that adds like 15mins on to your walk while you wait for the bridge to close again.

Its a nice walk from Rose Garden to the office (on 6th ave) on a nice, dry day- rainy days will mean shuttle time.

Time to get off the MAX and walk! Till next time,


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