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The Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) is a light rail system serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.Owned and operated by TriMet, it consists of five lines connecting the six sections of Portland; the communities of Beaverton, Clackamas, Gresham, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove; and Portland International Airport to Portland City Center.
The MAX Red Line is a light rail line serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.Operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system, it is an airport rail link connecting Hillsboro, Beaverton, Portland City Center, and Northeast Portland to Portland International Airport.
The MAX Blue Line is a light rail line serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.Operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system, it connects Hillsboro, Beaverton, Portland, and Gresham.
The system is operated by TriMet, a public agency that operates public transit in the Portland area. Serving an average of 130,000 passengers a day (in Fiscal Year 2012), [2] MAX Light Rail is one of the largest light rail systems in the United States in terms of ridership. [3] The MAX system currently consists of five lines, each designated by ...
Like transportation in the rest of the United States, the primary mode of local transportation in Portland, Oregon is the automobile. Metro , the metropolitan area's regional government, has a regional master plan in which transit-oriented development plays a major role. [ 1 ]
The I-205/Portland Mall project added 20 new stations to the MAX system upon completion in September 2009: 12 one-way pairs along the Portland Transit Mall and eight stations along I-205. In September 2012, the PSU South stations on the southern end of the transit mall were infilled.
Of these stations, seven occupy the median of Interstate Avenue, which gives the segment its name. The Yellow Line is the only service that operates along the Interstate MAX. It also serves seven stations in downtown Portland along the northbound segment of the Portland Transit Mall on 6th Avenue, and these are shared with the Green Line.
Portland's regional transit agency, TriMet, had served Portland International Airport with bus routes since 1970. [6] In 1986, [7] the same year TriMet began operating the Metropolitan Area Express (MAX), planners from the Portland metropolitan area's regional government, Metro, proposed a light rail extension to the airport.