Southeast Bybee Boulevard station

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SE Bybee Blvd MAX Orange Line icon.svg
MAX Light Rail station
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The station platform viewed from the Bybee Bridge
General information
Location2425 SE Bybee Boulevard
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Coordinates 45°28′28″N122°38′24″W / 45.474569°N 122.639997°W / 45.474569; -122.639997
Owned by TriMet
Line(s) MAX Orange Line icon.svg Orange Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsAiga bus trans.svg 19
Construction
Bicycle facilities Parking racks
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedSeptember 12, 2015
Passengers
Fall 2018513 weekday boardings [1]
Services
Preceding station TriMet icon.svg TriMet Following station
Southeast Tacoma/​Johnson Creek
towards Southeast Park Avenue
Orange Line Southeast 17th Avenue and Holgate Boulevard
towards PSU South/​Southwest 6th & College
Location
Southeast Bybee Boulevard station

Southeast Bybee Boulevard is a light rail station in Portland, Oregon, United States, served by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It is the 14th station southbound on the Orange Line, which runs between Portland City Center, Southeast Portland, and Milwaukie. The island platform station adjoins Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight tracks to the east and McLoughlin Boulevard to the west. It is accessed from the Bybee Bridge, which spans over the platform and connects Portland's Sellwood-Moreland and Eastmoreland neighborhoods. Nearby destinations include Westmoreland Park, Eastmoreland Golf Course, Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, and Reed College.

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Southeast Bybee Boulevard station was built as part of the Portland–Milwaukie Light Rail Project, which extended MAX from downtown Portland to Milwaukie in Clackamas County. Construction of the station began in July 2013, and it opened along with the entire Portland–Milwaukie segment on September 12, 2015. The station is served by TriMet bus route 19–Woodstock/Glisan.

History

The station platform under construction in 2015 Bybee Bridge, Portland, Oregon (2015) - 07.JPG
The station platform under construction in 2015

Southeast Bybee Boulevard station is named after the road it serves, which is carried by the Bybee Bridge directly above the station platform. [2] The Bybee Bridge was originally built in 1911 by the Ladd Estate Company to serve property developments around the then-newly established Reed College in Eastmoreland. [3] [4] The bridge connected the Eastmoreland and Sellwood-Moreland communities by crossing over the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks, [5] which had been there since 1869, built by the Oregon Central Railroad. [6] [7] UP later acquired the railroad in 1996. [8] The original Bybee Bridge included a streetcar line called "Eastmoreland" that spurred from the Sellwood line on Milwaukie Avenue in Sellwood and ran to 32nd and Rex in Eastmoreland. [5] The streetcar was operated by the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company. [9] The Eastmoreland line was converted to trolley buses, Portland's first such service, in 1936, [10] [11] and converted again to motor buses after 1956. [12]

In 1979, regional planners proposed a light rail line for the McLoughlin Boulevard corridor against the backdrop of freeway revolts that defeated the Mount Hood Freeway project. [13] The line would have run from downtown Portland all the way south to Oregon City in Clackamas County as part of a network of "transitways" between Portland and its suburbs. [14] [15]

During the environmental phase of the Portland–Milwaukie Light Rail Project, the project steering committee proposed a light rail station below the Bybee Bridge. [16] In 2008, Metro (the Portland metropolitan area's regional government) adopted a locally preferred alternative that retained the stop. [17] : 1  Outreach for the station began in early 2009 during the light rail project's preliminary engineering phase. [18] Regional transit agency TriMet engaged with nearby neighborhood associations, namely the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association and the Sellwood-Moreland Improvement League, to discuss specific design elements and address safety and accessibility concerns. In 2012, TriMet approached engineering firm CH2M Hill for further design recommendations, which led to a second bus pull-out and elevator on the south side of the bridge. Construction of the station commenced in early 2013. [19]

By the end of January 2014, the station was about 60 percent complete. Upon completion, the station was predicted be one of the most visible within inner southeast Portland. [20] It opened on September 12, 2015.[ citation needed ]

Station details

Street levelEntrance/Exit, ticket vending machine, bus stop
Platform
level		Northbound← MAX Orange Line icon.svg Orange Line toward PSU South/Southwest 6th and College Street (Southeast 17th Avenue and Holgate Boulevard)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Southbound→ MAX Orange Line icon.svg Orange Line toward Southeast Park Avenue (Southeast Tacoma/Johnson Creek) →

The station occupies a section of dedicated light rail right-of-way running in between two parallel transportation corridors: McLoughlin Boulevard to the west and UP freight tracks to the east, which mark the boundary of two Portland neighborhoods, Sellwood-Moreland to the west and Eastmoreland to the east. The station is immediately surrounded by Westmoreland Park, Eastmoreland Golf Course, and Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. Southeast Bybee Boulevard station features an island platform situated directly beneath the Bybee Bridge, accessed from entrances at the crest of the bridge, with stairs and an elevator on both the north and south sides.

Services

A TriMet bus passing the station's northern entrance TriMet Gillig bus passing SE Bybee Blvd MAX station in 2019.jpg
A TriMet bus passing the station's northern entrance

Southeast Bybee Boulevard station is situated between the Southeast Tacoma/Johnson Creek and Southeast 17th Avenue and Holgate Boulevard stations as the 14th station soutbound on the MAX Orange Line, which runs from the station northbound to downtown Portland and southbound through Milwaukie to Oak Grove. [21] It recorded 513 average weekday boardings in fall 2018. [1] Trains serve the station for approximately 22 hours per day on weekdays, 21½ hours on Saturdays, and 19½ hours on Sundays. Headways measure from 15 minutes during most of the day to 30 minutes in the early mornings and late evenings. [22] Most northbound Orange Line trains through operate into the Yellow Line and continue to Expo Center station in North Portland, Oregon. [23] [24] A bus stop by the station entrance is served by TriMet bus route 19–Woodstock/Glisan, which provides riders access to nearby Reed College. [25]

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