The competition grew out of an idea to find a way to repurpose 26 Type 1 light-rail vehicles and keep them from becoming scrap. Portland State University’s Center for Public Interest Design tomorrow will select the winners of a design competition to re-envision the use of Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon’s (TriMet) oldest MAX light-rail vehicles, which will begin to be retired in a few years.
Contestants of the competition were encouraged to find new uses for legacy trains that could help address homelessness, climate change, racial inequality or other social, environmental or public health crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, TriMet officials said in a press release.
The competition grew out of an idea from TriMet General Manager Doug Kelsey to find a way to repurpose the agency’s 26 Type 1 light-rail vehicles and keep them from becoming scrap.
I wonder what Vivarail would make of these (at the risk of these becoming this generation’s Pacer train)