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City of Portland Bureau of Transportation

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Type
Other — municipal transportation bureau; owner of the Portland Streetcar system, which is managed for the City by Portland Streetcar, Inc. and operated jointly with TriMet
Market · Region
United States · Oregon
Open tenders
0
Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Track & civil, Electrification

Owns Portland Streetcar NS Line and A/B Loops, paying for rolling stock while TriMet operates.

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Owns the Portland Streetcar - the NS Line and the A and B Loops through the central city - and is the contracting City party to the 2012 Streetcar Master Agreement and Streetcar Operating Agreement with TriMet. Under the annual amendments to that agreement the City pays for all streetcar rolling stock, equipment and maintenance and provides managers and supervisors, while TriMet provides the unionised operators and pays the City a share of operating costs: $10,141,766 for FY2026 under Amendment No. 16. The Montgomery Park extension would add 0.7 miles and two stations and use Portland's first off-wire battery streetcars.

Type
Other — municipal transportation bureau; owner of the Portland Streetcar system, which is managed for the City by Portland Streetcar, Inc. and operated jointly with TriMet
Where
Oregon · Portland
Programmes
FTA Capital Investment Grants
Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Track & civil, Electrification

Structure

  • operated by TriMet — Provides the unionised operators and maintenance personnel for the Portland Streetcar under the 2012 Streetcar Master Agreement and Streetcar Operating Agreement with the City; TriMet's FY2026 share of operating costs is under Amendment No. 16 (active · since 2012-07)
Sources for these relationships (1)
  • ● TriMet (Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon) · Resolution No. 25-06-35 authorizing Amendment No. 16 to the Portland Streetcar Operating Agreement with the City of Portland, 25 June 2025 (PDF, 4 pages, 324,595 bytes). States TriMet's FY2026 share of streetcar operating costs and the cost-per-hour calculation. (published 2025-06-25 · checked 2026-09-14)

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  • Portals (2)
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4 sources · all primary
  • ● City of Portland Bureau of Transportation · Transportation Projects — PBOT's own capital projects programme page, listing its featured construction projects and its contact desk. Read 14 September 2026, HTTP 200, 21,285 bytes (the address /transportation/projects redirects to /transportation/pbot-projects). No streetcar project page is published under it. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Portland Streetcar, Inc. · Projects + Planning — the streetcar operator's own page on the Montgomery Park extension. States that the project was first identified in the 2009 Streetcar System Concept Plan, that the City Council approved the Montgomery Park Area Plan in December 2024 and the project entered the federal project development phase shortly afterwards, that the extension would rebuild NW 23rd Avenue from NW Lovejoy to NW Vaughn and would incorporate Portland's first use of off-wire battery technology, that Portland Streetcar is replacing its original 25-year-old fleet and will be procuring 15 new streetcars by the time the extension begins service, and that construction could begin in 2029. Read 14 September 2026, HTTP 200. (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● TriMet (Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon) · Resolution No. 25-06-35 authorizing Amendment No. 16 to the Portland Streetcar Operating Agreement with the City of Portland, 25 June 2025 (PDF, 4 pages, 324,595 bytes). States TriMet's FY2026 share of streetcar operating costs and the cost-per-hour calculation. (published 2025-06-25 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grants Dashboard, last updated 10 September 2026 (PDF, 2 pages, 113,180 bytes). Carries the Montgomery Park Transit Project (sponsor TriMet, Portland OR, Project Development, 0.7 miles, 2 stations, project cost $170-$190.0 million, CIG request TBD, PD entry 30 December 2024, estimated grant date Mid 2028), the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program (sponsor WSDOT, Vancouver/Portland WA-OR, Project Development, project cost $1,832.3 million, CIG request $1,000.0 million, 55 per cent CIG share), the 82nd Ave Transit Project and the TV Highway Transit and Safety Project. (published 2026-09-10 · checked 2026-09-14)

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