Type Light rail Website MAX Green Line Operator TriMet | System MAX Light Rail Opened September 12, 2009 Stations 29 | |
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Daily ridership 24,300 (as of April 2012) Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in) standard gauge Terminis Clackamas Town Center Transit Center, PSU South MAX Station Locale Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, Oregon |
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The MAX Green Line is a light rail route in the MAX Light Rail system in Portland, Oregon, United States, extending to Clackamas, Oregon. Construction began in early 2007, and the line opened on September 12, 2009. The average daily ridership in June 2010 was 19,500 increasing to 24,300 by April 2012.
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- Trimet max green line timelapse sb v 2 reissue
- Trimet max green line timelapse southbound to clackamas from psu
- Project details
- Finances
- Possible future extension
- References
Trimet max green line timelapse southbound to clackamas from psu
Project details
The Green Line runs over a combination of existing and new tracks. New tracks were built in two projects:
The alignment passes under the Burnside St., Stark St., Washington St., Main St. (pedestrian) and Market St. overpasses on the east side of the freeway, then crosses under the freeway between the Market St. and Division St. overpasses. It passes under the Division St. overpass before going over Powell Boulevard. and then under the Holgate Boulevard. overpass. It then passes under the Steele St. (ped.) overpass and over Harold St., Foster Rd., Woodstock Blvd., and Springwater corridor. The line then crosses Johnson Creek before an at-grade crossing at Flavel St. The line passes over the intersection of 92nd Avenue and Crystal Springs Boulevard, then returns to grade before traveling above Johnson Creek Boulevard on a 1,400-foot-long overpass, the longest new structure on the alignment. South of Fuller Road station the line dips under the pre-existing Otty Road and Monterey Avenue overpasses, before terminating at the Clackamas Town Center Transit Center, near Sunnyside Road. Because of the extensive grade-separation, trains are able to travel the 6.5-mile (10.5 km) distance from Clackamas to Gateway in only 16 minutes. Much of this segment parallels the I-205 Bike Path.
Connecting the two new sections is the following previously existing section:
Finances
The MAX Green Line project cost $575.7 million, $345.4 million of which was funded by the Federal Transit Administration. The project received $32 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, an amount already committed to the project by the federal government but made available so that TriMet could retire debt earlier.
Possible future extension
The line may one day be extended south to Oregon City. Such an extension was one of six corridors in Metro's High Capacity Transit System Plan designated as a "Next Phase Regional Priority Corridor," a second-level tier where "future HCT investment may be viable if recommended planning and policy actions are implemented."