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MAX Blue Line
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 MAX Light Rail, it connects Hillsboro, Oregon, Hillsboro, Beaverton, Oregon, Beaverton, Portland, and Gresham, Oregon, Gresham. The line serves 48 stations; it travels from Hatfield Government Center station in Hillsboro to Cleveland Ave station in Gresham. Service runs for 22 hours per day from Monday to Thursday, with headways of between 30 minutes off-peak and five minutes during rush hour. It runs later in the evening on Fridays and Saturdays and ends earlier on Sundays. The Blue Line is the busiest of the five MAX lines, having carried an average 55,370 riders each day on weekdays in September 2018. The success of local Highway revolts in the United States, freeway revolts in Portland in the early 1970s led to a reallocation of Administration of federal assistance in the United States, federal assistance funds from the proposed Mount Hoo ...
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Light Rail
Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit. The term was coined in 1972 in the United States as an English equivalent for the German word ''Stadtbahn'', meaning "city railway". From: 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference Different definitions exist in some countries, but in the United States, light rail operates primarily along exclusive Right_of_way#Rail_right_of_way, rights-of-way and uses either individual tramcars or multiple units coupled together, with a lower capacity and speed than a long heavy rail passenger train or rapid transit system. Narrowly defined, light rail transit uses rolling stock that is similar to that of a traditional tram, while operating at a higher capacity and speed, often on an exclusive right-of-way. In broader usage, light ...
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Mount Hood Freeway
The Mount Hood Freeway is a partially constructed but never to be completed freeway alignment of U.S. Route 26 and Interstate 80N (now Interstate 84), which would have run through southeast Portland, Oregon Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, .... Related projects would have continued the route through the neighboring suburb of Gresham, Oregon, Gresham, out to the city of Sandy, Oregon, Sandy. The original plans for the freeway were presented by the Oregon State Highway Department as part of a 1955 report that proposed 14 new highways in the Portland metropolitan area. The freeway proposal was part of urban planner Robert Moses’s original postwar infrastructure plan for Portland. The proposed route was to run parallel to the existing alignment of US 26 on Powell ...
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Oregon State Highway Department
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation. It was first established in 1969. It had been preceded by the Oregon State Highway Department which, along with the Oregon State Highway Commission, was created by an act of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1913. It works closely with the five-member Oregon Transportation Commission (the modern name of the Highway Commission) in managing the state's transportation systems. The Oregon Transportation Commission, formerly the Oregon State Highway Commission, is a five-member governor-appointed government agency that manages the state highways and other transportation in the U.S. state of Oregon, in conjunction with the Oregon Department of Transportation. Inception The first State Highway Commission was created on August 12, 1913, and was composed of Governor Oswald West, Secretary of State Ben W. Olcott and Treasurer ...
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Robert Moses
Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century. Moses is regarded as one of the most powerful and influential people in the history of New York City and New York state. The grand scale of his infrastructure projects and his philosophy of urban development influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners across the United States. Never elected to any public office, Moses held various positions throughout his more-than-40-year career. He held as many as 12 titles at once, including New York City Parks Commissioner and chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission. By working closely with New York governor Al Smith early in his career, he became an expert in writing laws and navigating and manipulating the workings of state government. He created and led numerous semi-autonomous public authorities, through which he cont ...
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Gateway/Northeast 99th Avenue Transit Center
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 station, a separate station served by westbound Red Line trains. The complex is where the three lines split, with the Blue Line proceeding east to Gresham, the Green Line proceeding south to Clackamas, and the Red Line proceeding north to Portland International Airport. It is TriMet's second-busiest transit center after Beaverton Transit Center, with 4,847 average weekday boardings for all modes in spring 2023. When opened in 1986, it was the busiest station on the Portland–Gresham MAX line, the only line in the system at that time, and was the terminus of 11 bus lines.Wade, Michael (November 17, 1986). "MAX spearheads boost in ridership". ''The Oregonian'', p. B4. Cur ...
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MAX Green Line
The MAX Green Line is a light rail line serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Operated by TriMet as part of MAX Light Rail, it connects Portland State University (PSU), Downtown Portland, Oregon, Portland City Center, Northeast Portland, Oregon, Northeast Portland, Southeast Portland, Oregon, Southeast Portland, and Clackamas, Oregon, Clackamas. The Green Line travels from the PSU South stations to Clackamas Town Center Transit Center and serves 30 stations. It is the only service that Through service, interlines with all of the other MAX services, sharing the Portland Transit Mall segment with the MAX Orange Line (TriMet), Orange and MAX Yellow Line (TriMet), Yellow lines and part of the Eastside MAX segment with the MAX Blue Line, Blue and MAX Red Line, Red lines. South of Gateway Transit Center (TriMet), Gateway Transit Center, the Green Line Branch line, branches off to Clackamas Town Center. Service runs for 21 hours on weekdays and 20 hours on ...
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Rose Quarter Transit Center
Rose Quarter Transit Center is a light rail station in the MAX system and a TriMet bus transit center, and is located in the Rose Quarter area of Portland, Oregon, a part of the Lloyd District. It is served by the Blue, Green and Red lines, as well as the Yellow Line at the adjacent Interstate/Rose Quarter station, located about 200 yards to the west. It is currently the 7th stop eastbound on the Eastside MAX as well as the first stop after crossing the Willamette River on the Steel Bridge. Originally called the Coliseum Transit Center, it was renamed Rose Quarter Transit Center in 1994. As of September 2012, the transit center is served by six TriMet bus routes. Rose Quarter Transit Center is located at 47 NE Holladay Street where it intersects NE Wheeler Avenue; the MAX station platforms are under an Interstate 5 overpass. Interstate/Rose Quarter station is located in the median of Interstate Avenue at its intersection with NE Multnomah Street. The stations serve the Rose ...
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Hillsboro Airport/Fairgrounds Station
Hillsboro Airport/Fairgrounds, formerly Fair Complex/Hillsboro Airport, is a light rail station on the MAX Blue Line, MAX Blue and MAX Red Line, Red lines in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. It is the 16th stop westbound on the Westside MAX, and the last westbound stop prior to crossing the Main Street Bridge (Hillsboro, Oregon), Main Street Bridge. The station is located close to the Westside Commons (Hillsboro, Oregon), Westside Commonsthe 2019-adopted new name for the Washington County Fair Complexand Hillsboro Airport, a major general-aviation facility in Hillsboro, and the location of the Oregon International Airshow in the summer. Bus line 46-North Hillsboro serves the station. History Construction of TriMet’s MAX Blue Line#Westside MAX, Westside MAX project began in 1994, with the Fairplex station opening on September 12, 1998, along with the rest of the line west of Downtown Portland. A person was struck and killed by a MAX train at the station in April 2001. In June 2 ...
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Portland International Airport
Portland International Airport is a joint civil–military airport and the largest airport in the U.S. state of Oregon, accounting for 90% of the state's passenger air travel and more than 95% of its air cargo. It is within Portland's city limits just south of the Columbia River in Multnomah County, by air and by highway northeast of downtown Portland. Portland International Airport is often referred to by its IATA airport code, PDX. The airport covers 3,000 acres (1,214 ha) of land. Portland International Airport has direct flights to cities throughout the United States and in several other countries, including Canada, Mexico, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Iceland. The airport is a hub for Alaska Airlines. It also has a maintenance facility for Alaska Air subsidiary Horizon Air. General aviation services are provided at PDX by Atlantic Aviation. The Oregon Air National Guard has a base on the southwest portion of the airport property grounds, and is also ...
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MAX Red Line
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 MAX Light Rail, it is an airport rail link connecting Hillsboro, Oregon, Hillsboro, Beaverton, Oregon, Beaverton, Downtown Portland, Oregon, Portland City Center, and Northeast Portland, Oregon, Northeast Portland to Portland International Airport. The Red Line serves 37 stations; it Through service, interlines with the MAX Blue Line, Blue Line and partially with the MAX Green Line, Green Line from Hillsboro Airport/Fairgrounds station to Gateway Transit Center (TriMet), Gateway Transit Center and then Branch line, branches off to Portland Airport station. Service runs for 22 hours per day with headways of up to 15 minutes. The Red Line carried an average 17,390 passengers per weekday in September 2024, the second busiest after the Blue Line. Plans for light rail service to Portland International Airport surfaced in the 1980s, and efforts were acc ...
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Color Code
A color code is a system for encoding and representing non-color information with colors to facilitate communication. This information tends to be categorical (representing unordered/qualitative categories) though may also be sequential (representing an ordered/quantitative variable). History The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long-distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication. The United Kingdom adopted a color code scheme for such communication wherein red signified danger and white signified safety, with other colors having similar assignments of meaning. As chemistry and other technologies advanced, it became expedient to use coloration as a signal for telling apart things that would otherwise be confusingly similar, such as wiring in electrical and electronic devices, and pharmaceutical pills. Encoded Variable A color code encodes a variable, which may have different representations, where the color code type should match th ...
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Through Route
A cross-city route is a public transport route linking one suburb (or satellite) of a city or town with another, usually relatively distant, suburb (or satellite). Such a route can be operated by various forms of public transport, including commuter rail, rapid transit, trams (streetcars), trolleybuses, or motor buses. Forms of cross-city routes Through routes Typically, a cross-city route will be a combination of two radial routes, each linking one of the outer termini with the city or town's central business district (CBD). Such a route is sometimes called a ''through route''. (Note: The term ''cross-city route'' is not used in American English, and the similar American English term ''crosstown route'' has a distinctly different meaning, referring to a transport route that does not serve the city centre and runs generally perpendicular to radial routes.) A public transport operator may combine radial routes into a through route because terminating a route in a city or to ...
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