The Sunset Transit Center is a

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and light rail station on the MAX Blue and

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. It opened for MAX in 1998 and is the 5th stop westbound on the Westside MAX. This is the first stop after the

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under Portland's West Hills. Sunset TC is the second-busiest station on the Westside MAX line, with a weekday average of almost 6,000 daily riders in 2012. Though the station has a Portland address, it primarily serves residents of the communities of Cedar Hills,

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, and Beaverton. Named for the adjacent Sunset Highway (part of

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), the transit center also has a pedestrian bridge over that freeway, to connect to the Cedar Hills Shopping Center and Cedar Hills neighborhood.Hamilton, Don (June 18, 1998). "Footbridge over Sunset Highway will reopen by early August after repairs". ''

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'', weekly "Portland" section, p. 10. Several bus routes serve the center. The transit center's MAX platforms are below street level, set in an open cut, immediately west of an unnamed 600-foot-long tunnel to the shoulder of

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. Multiple bus stops are located around the top of the station pit, and at the station's west end is a two-story

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garage with 622 parking spaces on three levels (the top level is open). The garage includes a 74-space secured parking area for bicycles, opened in 2010. The park-and-ride is the busiest park-and-ride in TriMet's system.

History

Under land development terms set by Washington County, J. Peterkort Co., which had owned the site of Sunset Transit Center, was required to include a

in the development of its property north of the U.S. Route 26 (US 26) and

(OR 217) junction. On December 31, 1986, Peterkort sold of the land to TriMet for $962,000. The parking garage opened on March 3, 1997, served by a single bus line (89) whose route was altered for the purpose, because its construction was completed well ahead of the opening of the Westside MAX line.Oliver, Gordon (March 3, 1997). "Tri-Met will open 2 park-and-ride lots". ''

'', p. B2. Route 89 provided service between

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and

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at that time. Mixed-consist MAX train arriving at Sunset TC in 2012

The transit center effectively opened on September 12, 1998, with the start of MAX service and the addition of several more bus routes,Hamilton, Don (September 12, 1998). Eastside, Westside, all around the town, it’s MAX party time. ''

''. the latter altered to serve Sunset TC in place of the 1979-opened

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, located on the other side of the freeway (and closed permanently on this date). Sunset TC is the second-busiest MAX station on Portland's west side, with a weekday average of almost 6,000 daily riders in 2012. In 2010, TriMet converted eight automobile parking spaces to a secure bicycle parking area, opening in July of that year. The bicycle parking cage was built at a cost of $275,000, using federal economic-stimulus funding, and has a capacity of 74 bicycles. As of April 2011, its usage was averaging 1.2 bicycles per day, with an observed maximum of seven bicycles. TriMet closed the MAX station platforms on September 3, 2014 in order to replace the platforms, with trains passing through but not stopping during the closure period. The station reopened on September 17, two days ahead of schedule. On October 24, 2016,

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began serving the transit center with its Portland– Astoria service, four times a day (twice a day in each direction).

Bus service

This station by Sunset Highway (U.S. 26) is served by the following bus lines: *20 - Burnside/Stark *48 - Cornell *50 - Cedar Mill *59 - Walker/Park Way *62 - Murray Blvd *

service to Astoria, on the Oregon Coast *

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(TCTD) service to

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, on the Oregon Coast *Forest Heights Shuttle

References

External links

Sunset Transit Center
– TriMet page
Tillamook County Transportation District
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History

Bus service

See also

References

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