Portland's "Goldilocks" light rail has run into problems again:
Blue and Red lines through downtown Portland and its inner-eastside has been disrupted by damage to an overhead power cable. Buses are carrying passengers between the Providence Park MAX station and the Rose Quarter Transit Center.
The detour is expected to continue into the Tuesday evening commute, according to TriMet, the Portland area's public transit agency.
It's 70 degrees outside, so of course the well-designed, multi-billion-dollar lines' catenary lines have sagged due to the heat, causing the pantograph that transmits power to the two-car "trains" to catch; damaging the lines. It's buses to the rescue, once again. It's too bad that they can't figure out how to build these toy train-sets so that they can run in normal weather conditions, but it must be admitted that they look pretty cool, sitting there on their tracks.
