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TriMet operates a light rail system (MAX Light Rail), the Portland Streetcar, and a commuter rail line (WES Commuter Rail). TriMet is "a municipal corporation of the State of Oregon", with powers to tax, issue bonds, and enact police ordinances and is governed by a seven-member board of directors appointed by the Governor of Oregon. [8]
Gateway Transit Center is a multimodal transport hub in Portland, Oregon, United States.Owned and operated by TriMet, it comprises Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue Transit Center, a bus transit center and light rail station serving the MAX Green and Blue Lines and eastbound Red Line trains, and Gateway North, a separate station served by westbound Red Line trains.
The Beaverton Transit Center bike and ride opened the following July with 100 spaces for bicycles, at the time the largest in the TriMet system and the Pacific Northwest. [30] In August 2022, TriMet received a $5.6 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration to upgrade Beaverton Transit Center. Construction is expected to begin in 2025.
Owned by regional transit agency TriMet, the current transit center opened in 2009 and is located east of the Clackamas Town Center mall, adjacent to Interstate 205. Clackamas Town Center has hosted a bus transit center since 1981, with the original transit center located on the north side of the mall.
TriMet transit centers are defined by TriMet as "major transit hub[s] served by several bus or rail lines". [1] These transit centers are often key areas for accessing public transportation throughout the extended Portland metropolitan area .
Hatfield Government Center is a light rail station in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States, owned and operated by TriMet. The station is the western terminus of the MAX Blue Line . Opened in 1998, it is located in the same block as the Hillsboro Post Office and adjacent to the Washington County Courthouse and the Hillsboro Civic Center .
Southbound streetcars on the Portland Streetcar's Loop Service (called the CL Line until 2015), or A Loop cars, to the Central Eastside district and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), serve a stop located about 1,000 feet south of this station, on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., on the Convention Center's east side (stop ID 5912).
For almost 20 years before it became a transit center and MAX station, the site was already in use as a TriMet park-and-ride lot. TriMet's proposal to build the facility, with 288 spaces on a 3.6-acre (1.5 ha) lot, was approved by the Multnomah County Planning Commission in September 1983, [1] and the lot opened for use in summer 1984.