The City of Portland Sues TriMet for $10 Million Claiming Faulty Construction Work
Attorneys for the city of Portland are suing the region’s public transit agency for alleged shoddy work on a Southeast Portland streetcar platform that they say could set the city back $10 million in repairs.
The city is trying to recover the costs from TriMet and the construction company the transit agency hired to make improvements to the streetcar platform near the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. City attorneys filed a $10 million lawsuit last week in Multnomah County Circuit Court against TriMet and Stacy and Witbeck, a California-based construction firm that specializes in large transit projects.
For over two decades, the city has maintained a streetcar system that runs through downtown. In 2013, the city and TriMet embarked on the “Eastside Close the Loop Project,” an effort to create a full streetcar loop around the central city with a connection over the Tilikum Crossing Bridge.
