MAX Light Rail is a light rail system in Portland, Oregon, United States, that is owned and operated by TriMet. The system is 59.7 miles (96.1 km) long, consists of 94 stations, and is served by five color-designated lines. It operates in Oregon's Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties, connecting all six sections of Portland; the communities of Beaverton, Clackamas, Gresham, Hillsboro, and Milwaukie; and Portland International Airport to Portland City Center. As of 2018, MAX is the fourth-busiest light rail system in the United States after comparable light rail services in Los Angeles, Boston, and San Francisco. The system had an average daily ridership of 120,900 and nearly 39 million annual riders in 2019. Lines run seven days a week with headways of between 30 minutes off-peak and three minutes during rush hours.
The Hawthorne Bridge is a truss bridge with a vertical lift that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, joining Hawthorne Boulevard and Madison Street. It is the oldest vertical-lift bridge in operation in the United States and the oldest highway bridge in Portland. It is also the busiest bicycle and transit bridge in Oregon, with over 8,000 cyclists and 800 TriMet buses daily. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 2012.
The MAX Yellow Line is a light rail service in Portland, Oregon, United States, operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It connects North Portland to Portland City Center and Portland State University (PSU). The Yellow Line begins at Portland Expo Center in the north and runs south to the Rose Quarter through a 5.8-mile (9.3 km) light rail segment along the median of North Interstate Avenue called the Interstate MAX. From there, it crosses the Willamette River via the Steel Bridge and enters downtown Portland, where it operates as a northbound-only service of the Portland Transit Mall on 6th Avenue. The line serves 17 stops between the Expo Center and PSU South/Southwest 6th and College stations. It runs for approximately 21 hours daily with a minimum headway of 15 minutes during most of the day.
Overlook Park is a light rail station in Portland, Oregon, United States, that is served by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It is the eighth southbound station on the Yellow Line, which connects North Portland to downtown Portland and Portland State University. The staggered side platform station is situated between the Albina/Mississippi and North Prescott Street stations along the median of North Interstate Avenue, near the Interstate Medical Offices of Kaiser Permanente and a park with the same name. It is one of three stations serving North Portland's Overlook neighborhood along with North Prescott Street and North Killingsworth Street. The station opened on May 1, 2004, as part of the Interstate MAX extension. Trains serve the station daily for approximately 21 hours per day, operating on a headway of 15 minutes during most of the day. It recorded 557 average weekday boardings in fall 2018.
The MAX Orange Line is a light rail service in Portland, Oregon, United States, operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It connects Portland City Center to Portland State University (PSU), Southeast Portland, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove. The service starts near Portland Union Station and runs southbound only within downtown Portland along the Portland Transit Mall on 5th Avenue. From there, it operates the 7.3-mile (11.7 km) Portland–Milwaukie Light Rail segment through the South Waterfront, across the Willamette River into Southeast Portland, then south to Oak Grove, just outside Milwaukie proper in unincorporated Clackamas County. The line serves 17 stations between Union Station/Northwest 5th & Glisan and Southeast Park Avenue and runs for 201⁄2 hours daily with a minimum headway of 15 minutes during most of the day.
Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People is a cable-stayed bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was designed by TriMet, the Portland metropolitan area's regional transit authority, for its MAX Orange Line light rail passenger trains. The bridge also serves city buses and the Portland Streetcar, as well as bicycles, pedestrians, and emergency vehicles. Private cars and trucks are not permitted on the bridge. It is the first major bridge in the U.S. that was designed to allow access to transit vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians but not cars.
Running Horses is an outdoor 1986 bronze sculpture by Tom Hardy, located on the Transit Mall in downtown Portland, Oregon. It is part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Southeast Tacoma/Johnson Creek is a light rail station and park and ride for the MAX Orange Line. Service began on September 12, 2015. It is the third stop northbound on the Orange Line. The station was built for residents of the Sellwood and Ardenwald neighborhoods of Portland and Milwaukie. The station is located adjacent to Oregon Route 99E and can be directly accessed by northbound traffic and by traffic from the portion of SE Tenino Street that connects SE Tacoma to SE Johnson Creek Boulevard.
Southeast Bybee Boulevard is a light rail station in Portland, Oregon, United States, that is served by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. Situated between the Southeast Tacoma/Johnson Creek and Southeast 17th Avenue and Holgate Boulevard stations, it is the 14th southbound station on the Orange Line. The station's entrances are located on the Bybee Bridge, which spans over Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard and Union Pacific Railroad freight tracks and connects Portland's Sellwood-Moreland and Eastmoreland neighborhoods. They lead to a lower level island platform adjoining Eastmoreland Golf Course and Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden to the east and Westmoreland's park of the same name to the west. The station was built as part of the Portland–Milwaukie Light Rail Project, which extended MAX from downtown Portland to Milwaukie. Construction commenced in July 2013 and it opened on September 12, 2015. The station provides a connection to nearby Reed College via TriMet's 19–Woodstock/Glisan bus line.
Lincoln Street/Southwest 3rd Avenue is a light rail station on the MAX Orange Line, located at 229 Southwest Lincoln Street in Portland, Oregon.
Southeast Park Avenue is a light rail station on the MAX Orange Line located at Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard and Park Avenue in Oak Grove, an unincorporated area neighboring Milwaukie in Clackamas County, Oregon, in the United States. It is the terminus and southernmost stop on the Orange Line and has a 401-space park and ride facility.
Clinton Street/Southeast 12th Avenue is a MAX Orange Line station located at 1229 Southeast Gideon Street in Portland, Oregon's Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood, in the United States. The sculpture Intersection is installed at the station.
Southeast 17th Avenue and Holgate Boulevard is a MAX Orange Line station located in the median of Southeast 17th Avenue at Holgate Boulevard in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.
Rebirth, nicknamed "Deer Baby" and "Twilight Zone Bambi", was a proposed outdoor sculpture by American artist Seyed Alavi, considered for installation at the MAX Orange Line's Southeast Park Avenue MAX Station in Oak Grove, an unincorporated area neighboring Milwaukie in Clackamas County, Oregon, in the United States. The design of the unfinished creative work, which featured a 30-foot (9.1 m) deer with a child's face, was met with a mixed reception. Unable to meet TriMet's standards and remain under budget, in November 2011 Alavi withdrew his design from the project.
Untitled is an outdoor 1977 stainless steel sculpture by American artist Bruce West, installed in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.
To Grandmother's House is an outdoor wooden sculpture by Patrick Gracewood, installed near the Southeast Park Avenue station in Oak Grove, an unincorporated area neighboring Milwaukie in Clackamas County, Oregon, in the United States. It depicts an older woman holding a rabbit in her arms and was carved from a 75-year-old cedar tree, cut down for construction of the MAX Orange Line, over three years. The sculpture was installed on April 29, 2015.
We Have Always Lived Here is a 2015 public art installation by Greg A. Robinson, installed at Tilikum Crossing in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The work consists of two traditional Chinook basalt carvings sited at both ends of the bridge, plus a bronze medallion on the northeast side of the bridge.
Along These Lines is an outdoor 2015 stainless steel sculpture and paving medallion by Anne Storrs, installed at the Rhine–Lafayette Pedestrian Overpass landings at the MAX Orange Line's Southeast 17th Avenue and Rhine Street station in southeast Portland, Oregon's Brooklyn neighborhood, in the United States.
Kerf is an outdoor series of two pigmented cast concrete sculptures by Thomas Sayre, installed at the MAX Orange Line's Southeast Tacoma/Johnson Creek station in the southeast Portland, Oregon portion of the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek neighborhood, which straddles the border between Portland and Milwaukie, Oregon.
Velosaurus is an outdoor 2015 concrete and painted steel sculpture by Horatio Law, installed beneath the Powell Blvd. Light Rail Overpass between the MAX Orange Line's Clinton St/SE 12th Ave and Clinton St/SE 12th Ave stations in southeast Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The piece is a series of eight bas-relief panels made of recycled bicycle and skateboard parts, arranged to appear like dinosaur skeletal remains.
