Realizing that I have not mentioned the streetcars in Portland, I attempted to photograph a couple today, while driving. By this blank page, you may surmise I was not successful. What I wanted you to see is how “Vienna”, old-world-movie these ‘people movers’ make the city streets look. The streetcars, hooked together, glide on their tracks, rather close to the ground, with big windows and people looking out at the cars. They go around corners, in front of the waiting cars, along side of the cars and each and every time, it looks like a pre-world war-II movie set in the making. I realize that I don’t think it quite fits the cityscape. The buses fit the city view, the train whistles in the air heard anywhere downtown, fit, but these European-type streetcars seem a bit surreal. And on the main streets on which they travel, traffic signs are most confusing. 5th Avenue is one way, but the place lane for the car is on the left hand side of the street. There is so much signage to keep the traffic out of the way of the streetcars that to this day I don’t know what the indicators actually mean, and if there had not been cars ahead to follow, might have very well tried to drive on the far right, which I now believe is the bus lane.