DC residents can get fairly energized about improving transit, but Portland did us one better. They held a Streetcar Mobile Music Fest, featuring 8 bands on 6 streetcars. Here’s a video of the sights and sounds:

Portland is actively trying to “bring greater enthusiasm that we have transit in our city,” says Art Pearce of the Portland New Rail~Volutionaries, which bills itself as “a group of folks who are very excited about Streetcar.”

The video was featured in Rail~Volution Filmfest 2011, co-hosted by the DC New Rail~Volutionaries and Coalition for Smarter Growth in conjunction with the Rail~Volution conference held here October 16-19.