Big Pink Sightseeing Schedule for 2011

Posted on June 22, 2011 by admin

First departure from Pioneer Court House Square is at 10:00AM with the last departure leaving at 4:00PM arriving back at Pioneer Court House Square at 5:20PM. Buy your one or two day pass from our trolley ticket booth in Pioneer Court House Square or from the driver.
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Big Pink Sightseeing featured in The Oregonian

Posted on June 16, 2011 by admin

“To a certain type of tourist, Portland can seem intimidating.
Ours is a comparatively small city, a friendly, clean place with ample and easy to navigate public transportation.
But some out of towners, drawn here by our great food, majestic scenery and funky shopping, do not ride a bus or a train back home and do not understand that most of the homeless people and panhandlers they’ll run into as they maneuver through our fair city merit sympathy, not fear.
I call this variety of tourist “my mom.” David Beagle and David Duncan have a plan for her.
This spring, these two veterans of the tourism industry started “Big Pink Sightseeing,” a hop-on, hop-off tour that offers sightseers willing to spend $24 an easy way to see the city’s major, mainstream attractions. One dollar from each ticket will go to breast cancer research, thus the pink.”

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