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MAX Orange Line (TriMet)
The MAX Orange 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 Downtown Portland, Oregon, Portland City Center, Portland State University (PSU), Southeast Portland, Oregon, Southeast Portland, Milwaukie, Oregon, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove, Oregon, Oak Grove. The line serves 17 stations and runs for 20 hours per day with headways of up to 15 minutes. It averaged 5,680 daily weekday riders in December 2024. The Orange Line runs north–south. Its route begins near Portland Union Station on the northern end of the Portland Transit Mall in downtown Portland. Within the transit mall on 5th Avenue, the Orange Line operates as a southbound Through train, through service of the MAX Yellow Line (TriMet), Yellow Line from Union Station (TriMet), Union Station/NW 5th & Glisan station, where it interlines with the MAX Green Line, Green Line. Northbound on 6th Avenue, the Orange Line continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro (Oregon Regional Government)
Metro is the regional government for the Oregon portion of the Portland metropolitan area, covering portions of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. It is the only directly elected regional government and metropolitan planning organization in the United States. Metro is responsible for overseeing the Portland region's solid waste system, general planning of land use and transportation, maintaining certain regional parks and natural areas, and operating the Oregon Zoo, Oregon Convention Center, Portland's Centers for the Arts, and the Portland Expo Center. It also distributes money from two voter-approved tax measures: one for homeless services and one for affordable housing. History and evolution Metro in its current form evolved from Columbia Region Association of Governments (CRAG) (1966–1978) and a predecessor Metropolitan Service District (MSD) (1957–1966). Measure 6, a 1978 statewide ballot measure established Metro, effective January 1, 1979. In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeast Portland, Oregon
Southeast Portland is one of the sextants of Portland, Oregon. Boundaries and features Southeast Portland stretches from the warehouses along the Willamette River through historic Ladd's Addition to the Hawthorne and Belmont districts out to Gresham. Not far from Hawthorne is Reed College, whose campus expands from Woodstock Boulevard to Steele Street, and from 28th to 39th Avenues. Other neighborhoods in Southeast Portland include Brentwood-Darlington, Foster-Powell, and Mt. Scott-Arleta. Southeast Portland also features Mt. Tabor, a cinder cone volcano that has become one of Portland's more scenic and popular parks. Peacock Lane is a street known locally for lavish Christmas decorations and displays. History Southeast Portland has blue-collar roots and has evolved to encompass a wide mix of backgrounds. The Hawthorne district in particular is known for its hippie/radical crowd and small subculturally oriented shops. Between the 1920s and the 1960s, Southeast was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I-205/Portland Mall Light Rail Project
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), Portland City Center, Northeast Portland, Southeast Portland, and 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 interlines with all of the other MAX services, sharing the Portland Transit Mall segment with the Orange and Yellow lines and part of the Eastside MAX segment with the Blue and Red lines. South of Gateway Transit Center, the Green Line branches off to Clackamas Town Center. Service runs for 21 hours on weekdays and 20 hours on weekends with headways of up to 15 minutes. It is the third-busiest line in the system with an average of 13,030 riders per day on weekdays in September 2024. Planning for light rail in Clackamas County began in the mid-1980s with a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 205 (Oregon–Washington)
Interstate 205 (I-205) is an List of auxiliary Interstate Highways, auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon and Washington (state), Washington, United States. The north–south freeway serves as a bypass (road), bypass route of Interstate 5, I-5 along the east side of Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. It intersects several major highways and serves Portland International Airport. The freeway is long and connects to I-5 at both of its termini: to the south in Tualatin, Oregon, and to the north in Salmon Creek, Washington. I-205 is named the Veterans Memorial Highway and East Portland Freeway No. 64 in Oregon (see Oregon highways and routes). From Oregon City, Oregon, Oregon City to Vancouver, the corridor is paralleled by a multi-use trail, multi-use bicycle and pedestrian trail, as well as portions of the MAX Light Rail system between Clackamas, Oregon, Clackamas and northeastern Portland. A freeway to serve as an eastern bypas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon Route 99E
Oregon Route 99E is an Oregon state highway that runs between Junction City, Oregon and an interchange with I-5 just south of the Oregon/ Washington border, in Portland. It, along with OR 99W, makes up a split of OR 99 in the northern part of the state. This split existed when the route was U.S. Route 99, when the two branches were U.S. 99W and U.S. 99E. (Another such split occurred in California, but with the decommissioning of U.S. 99, that state elected to rename its U.S. 99W as Interstate 5, rather than preserve the directional suffix.) Currently, OR 99E and OR 99W do not reconvene at a northern junction in Oregon; OR 99W has been truncated from its original route, and ends in North Portland at an interchange with OR 99E and Interstate 5; nor is OR 99 (without a suffix) signed anywhere in Portland. Route description OR 99E has its southern terminus in Junction City. Almost immediately after leaving the city limits the route crosses the Willamette River, and serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clackamas County, Oregon
Clackamas County ( ) is one of the List of counties in Oregon, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Oregon City, Oregon, Oregon City. The Oregon Geographic Names, county was named after the native people living in the area at the time of the coming of Europeans, the Clackamas people, who are part of the Chinookan peoples. Clackamas County is part of the Portland, Oregon, Portland-Vancouver, Washington, Vancouver-Hillsboro, Oregon, Hillsboro, OR-Washington (state), WA Portland metropolitan area, Oregon, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is in the Willamette Valley. History Originally named Clackamas District, it was one of the four original Oregon districts created by Provisional Government of Oregon, Oregon's Provisional Legislature on July 5, 1843, along with Twality (later Washington County, Oregon, Washington), Champooick (later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area (United States)
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as the military). There are many unincorporated communities and areas in the United States and Canada, but many countries do not use the concept of an unincorporated area. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only one level of local government immediately beneath state and territorial governments. A local government area (LGA) often contains several towns and even entire metropolitan areas. Thus, aside from very sparsely populated areas and a few other unique cases, almost al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Limits
City limits or city boundaries refer to the defined boundary (real estate), boundary or border of a city. The area within the city limit can be called the city proper. Town limit/boundary and village limit/boundary apply to towns and villages. Similarly, corporate limit is a legal name that refers to the boundary of municipal corporations. In some countries, the limit of a municipality may be expanded through Municipal annexation, annexation. United Kingdom In the UK, city boundaries are more difficult to define, and the specific concept of a city boundary as opposed to e.g. a town or borough boundary, is less useful: British City status in the United Kingdom, cities are defined as any town or local authority area, regardless of area or population size, that has been granted letters patent as a royal prerogative. In smaller cities, such as Wells, Somerset, Wells (pop. approx. 10,000) or Gloucester (pop. approx. 100,000), the boundary will be that governed by the city council, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SE Park Ave Station
Southeast Park Avenue is a light rail station on the MAX Orange Line located at Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard and Park Avenue in Oak Grove, an unincorporated area neighboring Milwaukie in Clackamas County, Oregon, in the United States. It is the terminus and southernmost stop on the Orange Line and has a 401-space park and ride facility. Older plans for the station included a parking garage south of Southeast Park Avenue that were later scrapped. Originally, it was planned that this station would be one of two MAX stations, the other being Southeast Bybee Boulevard (also on the Orange Line), that would have fare turnstiles installed as part of a TriMet pilot project during the testing of the Hop Fastpass electronic fare system in 2017, but those plans have not proceeded. On August 5, 2022, a MAX train collided into a stopblock and damaged parts of the platform. In March 2024, TriMet began construction of two additional stories at the Park & Ride. Bus service Along wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PSU South Stations
The PSU South stations are a pair of light rail stations on the MAX Green, Orange and Yellow Lines in Portland, Oregon. The northbound station is PSU South/Southwest 6th and College station and the southbound station is PSU South/Southwest 5th and Jackson station. Together, they serve as the southern passenger terminus—one for departures only and the other for arrivals only—of the Portland Transit Mall MAX line. The stations opened on September 2, 2012. Although MAX trains began operating regularly past the sites of these stations on August 30, 2009, construction of the stations had yet to begin, because TriMet, operator of the MAX system, was still working with Portland State University officials on finalizing plans to redevelop the block of property adjacent to (and between) the two station sites as transit-oriented development. Those development plans were finalized in 2010, and construction of a new 16-story residence hall on the block began in November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MAX Yellow Line (TriMet)
The MAX Yellow Line is a light rail line serving Portland, Oregon, United States. Operated by TriMet as part of MAX Light Rail, it connects North Portland, Oregon, North Portland, Downtown Portland, Oregon, Portland City Center, and Portland State University (PSU). The line serves 17 stations; it runs north–south from Expo Center station to PSU South stations, PSU South/Southwest 6th and College station, through service, interlining with the MAX Green Line, Green and MAX Orange Line (TriMet), Orange lines within the Portland Transit Mall. Service runs for 21 hours per day with headways of up to 15 minutes. The Yellow Line is the fourth-busiest service in the MAX system; it carried an average 12,960 riders per weekday in September 2019. After failing to secure funding for a planned light rail line between Clackamas County, Oregon, Clackamas County and Clark County, Washington called the MAX Light Rail#South/North plan, Corridor, Portland business leaders and residents convince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
