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[EARLY VIDEO] The Best Way to This Hospital is By Aerial Tram! (Patreon)

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2026-01-28 22:00:11
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Oh boy, nothing like an uncut video to come in clutch when I need it most!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (there will be a better video next week)

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[EARLY] The Best Way to This Hospital is By Aerial Tram!

Always good to have one of these uncut videos in my back pocket for when I'm not on the continent... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/milesintransit Twitter: https://twitter.com/milesintransit1 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/milesintransit.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/milesintransit Cameo: https://cameo.com/milesintransit Website: https://milesintransit.com/

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Random Transit Adventures

if I had a nickel for every tourist trap that can (technically) be used as real transit I’d have 2 nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice (other one is the TECO streetcar)

Matthew Harris

So some backstory... The reason this was necessary is that OHSU, under a different name, was built up on that hillside in the late 1800s, because some local landowners granted land to the state for that purpose. Mostly because, at the time, they didn't think they could use it for anything else. And then it grew into a major hospital, on the top of a hill, that is fairly difficult to get to. So this only makes sense because of a decision made 150 years ago, when Portland probably had a population of 20-30,000 people, and when automobiles hadn't been invented yet.

Matthew Harris

Some more backstory (and this is of course, all just the summary!): The South Waterfront area, up to about 25 years ago, was brownfields, like the warehouse you see at 6:56. A group of investors wanted to turn it into a mini-office park area, which is what you see now. The thing about this is, it did involve a lot of public money for private gain. Which in some ways worked, but a lot of the objection that people had to things like the Portland Streetcar and the Aerial Tram was that it was very niche projects that mostly benefited a select group of real estate investors. Normally, I dismiss a lot of anti-transit arguments like this, but in this case, the development led to just commercial growth in one area, and hasn't really helped with things like housing. This is obviously a very abbreviated version of what happened, but that might put the development of the streetcar and the aerial tram in the South Waterfront area in perspective.

Corey

Uncut videos just hit different.

Andrew Sullivan
>>201265254

The cable cars have a good number of daily commuters in SF, especially the California line!

Andrew Sullivan

This is what the Dodgers want to build from Union Station to the stadium!

Breanna Fairchild

When they built the tram, I was living in a townhouse about a half block from the path above. The neighbors were very against it, but when I rode it the first time, it was a non-issue. Nothing to see.

Dylan Mahoney

Fixing Jackson's complaint at 3:42, I just added a link to the Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group's Wikipedia page from the infobox of the page for the Portland Aerial Tram

Ben

Glad to have some mountain foaming at the end!

Dylan Waller

I work as a researcher at the Portland VA which is on the same campus as OHSU. When I take the tram, I always try and look for the tourists. Reason being, they are always so excited to be there. It reminds me that my commute is very special, even when I'm tired at the end of a work day. Was fun watching you enjoy the tram.

Jess B

Another interesting response to the hilly Portland-area geography is the Oregon City Municipal elevator. It's the only municipal elevator in the United States and is shaped like a flying saucer. They built it for similar reasons to the aerial tram. It's a pretty cool visit! The next town over (West Linn, Oregon) has the US's only public sparkling water fountain, although imo the water tastes pretty strange.

Pandora Morgans-Dowden

You need to go to Paris. In the suburb of Créteil (at the far east end of Metro Line 8), they've just opened a five-stop gadgetbahn.