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Forest Grove is within the TriMet district, and public transit service is provided by TriMet's bus line 57-TV Highway/Forest Grove, which operates seven days a week. [29] Line 57 connects the city with Hillsboro and Beaverton, via the Tualatin Valley Highway, and links Forest Grove with the Portland region's light rail system (MAX) in Hillsboro.
Forest Grove: 17.88: 28.78: OR 8 west (Pacific Avenue) / OR 47 north (Nehalem Highway) – Forest Grove, Banks, Seaside: Western end of OR 8 overlap; eastern end of OR 47 overlap: Hillsboro: 13.29: 21.39: OR 219 south – Scholls, Newberg: Beaverton: 2.90: 4.67: OR 217 north to US 26 OR 217 north to I-5: Multnomah–Washington county line ...
Huffman lobbied federal officials to extend the line into downtown Hillsboro, including lecturing the Federal Transit Administration's leader. [6] When Hillsboro Central opened, the Hillsboro Public Library operated a small branch at the station called Books by Rail, which was the only library on the West Coast located at a mass transit station ...
GroveLink originated from a study that discovered a need for a more local service than TriMet bus route 57–TV Highway/Forest Grove, which had operated as the only public transit service within Forest Grove with a single route along Pacific Avenue (Oregon Route 8) eastward to Hillsboro and Beaverton. [7] It began operating on August 19, 2013 ...
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]
Frequent Express (FX) is a rapid bus [a] service in Portland, Oregon, United States.Operated by TriMet as FX2–Division, the 15-mile (24 km) route runs east–west from 5th & Hoyt on the Portland Transit Mall in downtown Portland to Cleveland Avenue Park and Ride in Gresham via Division Street.
That service was renamed the Blue Line in 2001 following the completion of the Airport MAX project, [20] which introduced the Red Line to Portland International Airport. [21] Originally, westbound Red Line trains only ran up to the Library and Galleria stations in downtown Portland, where they turned around at the 11th Avenue loop tracks. On ...
The system currently has a total of 94 stations, minus 3 which closed in March 2020. Fifty-one stations are served by the Blue Line, 28 stations by the Green Line, 17 by the Orange Line, 29 by the Red Line, and 17 by the Yellow Line, with 39 stations served by two or more lines and 8 by three. All trains connect at Pioneer Courthouse Square.