MAX RED LINE

The 'MAX Red Line' is a route in the Metropolitan Area Express light rail system in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. The route, operated by TriMet, provides an airport rail link to Portland International Airport from Beaverton and downtown Portland.

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History

Future plans

Stations

History

When the Portland International Airport was suffering from heavy road traffic coming from increased passenger service, and the Port of Portland was running out of land for new parking lots, the Port approached TriMet about bringing MAX to the airport, following through on a plan that dated to highway construction in the 1970s which had left room for such a connection.
The 'Airport MAX' project was born, but the line was delayed after a North-South light rail proposal, part of which is today's MAX Yellow Line, was defeated at the polls. Instead, the Port and TriMet built the project through a Public-Private Partnership with the Bechtel Corporation. Bechtel agreed to pay for a large portion of the land cost of the line in exchange for rights to the Cascades development on empty land that the Port of Portland owned near I-205 and the Airport which is now under construction.
The line opened on September 10, 2001, one day before the September 11, 2001 attacks, which had the side effect of shutting down all air travel in the United States for several days.
Beginning in 2003, the Red Line's service was extended farther west along the existing Blue Line tracks, from downtown Portland to downtown Beaverton, to improve capacity between the Gateway area and Beaverton and also to provide a no-transfer airport connection for Westside MAX riders.
Because the Blue Line had been serving Hillsboro Airport since 1998, people unfamiliar with or returning after a long absence to the area have been known to confuse the two airport stations.

Future plans

The Red Line may branch up I-205 over the Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge into Vancouver, Washington.

Stations

Name	Opening Year	Interchange	Municipality	Fare Zone	Park and Ride?
'MAX Red Line (Airport-Beaverton)'
Airport	2001		Portland	3	No
Mount Hood Avenue	2001		Portland	3	No
Cascades	2001		Portland	3	No
Parkrose/Sumner Transit Center	2001		Portland	3	Yes
Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue Transit Center	1986	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	3	Yes
Northeast 82nd Avenue	1986	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	2	No
Northeast 60th Avenue	1986	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	2	No
Hollywood/Northeast 42nd Avenue Transit Center	1986	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	2	No
Lloyd Center/Northeast 11th Avenue	1986	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Northeast 7th Avenue	1986	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Convention Center	1986	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Rose Quarter Transit Center	1986	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Old Town/Chinatown	1986	'MAX Blue Line' 'MAX Yellow Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Skidmore Fountain	1986	'MAX Blue Line' 'MAX Yellow Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Oak Street/Southwest 1st Avenue	1986	'MAX Blue Line' 'MAX Yellow Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
''The route enters a transit mall, with separate westbound and eastbound tracks.''
Yamhill District (eastbound); Morrison/Southwest 3rd Avenue (westbound)	1986	'MAX Blue Line' 'MAX Yellow Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Mall/Southwest 4th Avenue (eastbound); Mall/Southwest 5th Avenue (westbound)	1986	'MAX Blue Line' 'MAX Yellow Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Pioneer Square South (eastbound); Pioneer Square North (westbound)	1986	'MAX Blue Line' 'MAX Yellow Line'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
Library/Southwest 9th Avenue (eastbound); Galleria/Southwest 10th Avenue (westbound)	1986	'MAX Blue Line' 'MAX Yellow Line' 'Portland Streetcar'	Portland	1 Fareless Square	No
PGE Park	1997	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	1	No
''The route exits the transit mall.''
Kings Hill/Southwest Salmon	1997	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	1	No
Goose Hollow/Southwest Jefferson Street	1998	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	1	No
Washington Park	1998	'MAX Blue Line'	Portland	1	No
Sunset Transit Center	1998	'MAX Blue Line'	Washington County	3	Yes
Beaverton Transit Center	1998	'MAX Blue Line'	Beaverton	3	No