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Rose City Transit, the Glossary

The Rose City Transit Company (RCT, or RCTC) was a private company that operated most mass transit service in the city of Portland, Oregon, from 1956 to 1969.^[1]

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1956 establishments in Oregon
1969 disestablishments in Oregon
Bus transportation in Oregon
Transport companies disestablished in 1969
Transport companies established in 1956
Trolleybus transport in the United States

Amalgamated Transit Union

The Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) is a labor organization in the United States and Canada that represents employees in the public transit industry.

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Arcadia Publishing

Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.

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The Blue Bus lines were a group of four affiliated privately owned companies that provided bus transit service in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area in the 1950s and 1960s. Rose City Transit and Blue Bus lines are bus transportation in Oregon, Defunct public transport operators in the United States and history of transportation in Oregon.

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Board of directors

A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

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Bus

A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.

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Caxton Press (United States)

Caxton Press (formerly known as Caxton Printers, a division of its parent company, The Caxton Printers Ltd.) is a book publisher located in Caldwell, Idaho, United States, founded in 1925.

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Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.

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Concession (contract)

A concession or concession agreement is a grant of rights, land, property, or facility by a government, local authority, corporation, individual or other legal entity.

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Consortium

A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

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Daily Journal of Commerce

The Daily Journal of Commerce (DJC) is a U.S. newspaper published Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Portland, Oregon.

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Downtown Portland, Oregon

Downtown Portland is the central business district of Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Elephant

Elephants are the largest living land animals.

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Fare

A fare is the fee paid by a passenger for use of a public transport system: rail, bus, taxi, etc.

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General Motors

General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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GM New Look bus

The GM New Look bus is a municipal transit bus that was introduced in 1959 by the Truck and Coach Division of General Motors to replace the company's previous coach, retroactively known as the GM "old-look" transit bus.

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Government of Portland, Oregon

The government of Portland, Oregon is based on a city commission government system.

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Governor of Oregon

The governor of Oregon is the head of government of Oregon and serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Holding company

A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies.

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Interurban

The interurban (or radial railway in Canada) is a type of electric railway, with tram-like electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.

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Interurban Press

Interurban Press was a small, privately owned American publishing company, specializing in books about streetcars, other forms of rail transit and railroads in North America, from 1943MacDougall, Kent (May 19, 1983).

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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Local union

A local union (often shortened to local), in North America, or union branch (known as a lodge in some unions), in the United Kingdom and other countries, is a local branch (or chapter) of a usually national trade union.

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Mac Sebree

George McClelland Sebree III (August 26, 1932 – March 7, 2010), better known as Mac Sebree, was an American journalist, writer and publisher whose area of expertise was urban mass transit, particularly urban rail transit.

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Mack Trucks

Mack Trucks, Inc. is an American truck manufacturing company and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses.

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Mascot

A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.

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Motor Bus Society

The Motor Bus Society (MBS) is a United States-based non-profit organization formed by a voluntary association of persons who share an interest in buses and bus transportation in North America and, in particular, the history of the same.

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Municipal bond

A municipal bond, commonly known as a muni, is a bond issued by state or local governments, or entities they create such as authorities and special districts.

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Municipalization

Municipalization is the transfer of private entities, assets, service providers, or corporations to public ownership by a municipality, including (but not limited to) a city, county, or public utility district ownership.

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Oregon circuit courts

Oregon's circuit courts are general jurisdiction trial courts of the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Oregon City, Oregon

Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan area.

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Oregon House of Representatives

The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly.

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Oregon Legislative Assembly

The Oregon Legislative Assembly is the state legislature for the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Oregon Public Utility Commission

The Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) is the chief electric, gas and telephone utility regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Oregon Zoo

The Oregon Zoo, originally the Portland Zoo and later the Washington Park Zoo, is a zoo located in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon, approximately southwest of downtown Portland.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.

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Patronage (transportation)

In public transportation, ridership refers to the number of people using a transit service.

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Portland metropolitan area, Oregon

The Portland metropolitan area is a metro area with its core in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Public transport bus service

Public transport bus services are generally based on regular operation of transit buses along a route calling at agreed bus stops according to a published public transport timetable.

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Regulatory agency

A regulatory agency (regulatory body, regulator) or independent agency (independent regulatory agency) is a government authority that is responsible for exercising autonomous dominion over some area of human activity in a licensing and regulating capacity.

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Rush hour

A rush hour (American English, British English) or peak hour (Australian English) is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Springwater Corridor

The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.

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Subsidy

A subsidy or government incentive is a type of government expenditure for individuals and households, as well as businesses with the aim of stabilizing the economy.

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Suburb

A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.

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Terry Schrunk

Terrence Doyle Schrunk (March 10, 1913 – March 4, 1975) was an American politician who served as the mayor for the city of Portland, Oregon, 1957–1973, a length tying with George Luis Baker, who also served 16 years (1917–1933).

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The Oregon Journal

The Oregon Journal was Portland, Oregon's daily afternoon newspaper from 1902 to 1982.

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The Oregonian

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications.

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Token coin

In numismatics, token coins or trade tokens are coin-like objects used instead of coins.

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Tom McCall

Thomas Lawson McCall (March 22, 1913 January 8, 1983) was an American statesman, politician and journalist in the state of Oregon, serving as the state's thirtieth governor from 1967 to 1975.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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Transit bus

A transit bus (also big bus, commuter bus, city bus, town bus, urban bus, stage bus, public bus, public transit bus, or simply bus) is a type of bus used in public transport bus services.

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Transportation in Portland, Oregon

Like transportation in the rest of the United States, the primary mode of local transportation in Portland, Oregon is the automobile.

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TriMet

The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) is a transit agency that serves most of the Oregon part of the Portland metropolitan area. Rose City Transit and TriMet are bus transportation in Oregon.

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Trolleybus

A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing..or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd.

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Vancouver, Washington

Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, located in Clark County.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_City_Transit

Also known as Rose City Transit Company.

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Rose City Transit, the Glossary

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See also

1956 establishments in Oregon

1969 disestablishments in Oregon

Bus transportation in Oregon

Transport companies disestablished in 1969

Transport companies established in 1956

Trolleybus transport in the United States

References