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In 2014, Travel Portland launched a winter tourism campaign by installing a 7,000-pound, 24-foot (7.3 m) tall cuckoo clock carved from an Oregon maple tree at Portland International Airport after visits to Seattle and Vancouver. [62] [63] [64] Dubbed the nation's tallest freestanding cuckoo clock, the clock was disassembled in late 2016.
Turo Inc. is an American peer-to-peer carsharing company based in San Francisco, in the United States.The company allows private car owners to rent out their vehicles via an online and mobile interface in four countries (the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia) [4] and new corporate owners to rent out their cars in France in addition to the four previous countries.
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county.
Oregon (/ ˈ ɒr ɪ ɡ ən,-ɡ ɒ n / ⓘ ORR-ih-ghən, -gon) [7] [8] is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho.
The Portland Streetcar is a streetcar system in Portland, Oregon, that opened in 2001 [4] and serves areas surrounding downtown Portland. The 3.9-mile (6.3 km) NS Line runs from Northwest Portland to the South Waterfront via Downtown and the Pearl District .
The first vehicle was completed at the factory in late 1983 [2] and arrived in Portland in 1984. [16] The Type 1 cars are the only light rail cars in TriMet's fleet that lack regenerative braking capability. [17] The Type 1 cars were delivered without air-conditioning, but it was added to all cars during a retrofit in 1997–98.
Willamette Week was founded in 1974 by Ronald A. Buel, [3] who served as its first publisher. [4] It was later owned by the Eugene Register-Guard, which sold it in the fall of 1983 to Richard H. Meeker and Mark Zusman, [5] who took the positions of publisher and editor, respectively.
The airport provides access to nine different rental car agencies, with rental car pickup available right outside the terminal building. All nine rental car counters are located in the baggage claim. After completing the rental agreement inside, vehicles may be collected from the parking structure located just outside the baggage claim.