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 The transit center's bus bays in 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | 10470 Southwest Barnes Road Portland, Oregon United States | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°30′37″N 122°46′52″W / 45.510244°N 122.781012°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | TriMet | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 579 regular spaces 13 accessible spaces 2 Quick Drop spaces 16 carpool spaces 12 short-term parking spaces | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 74-space secure area | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | September 12, 1998 Parking garage and one bus line: March 3, 1997[1] | |||||||||||||||
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The Sunset Transit Center is a TriMet bus transit center and light rail station on the MAX Blue and Red lines in Beaverton, Oregon. It opened for MAX in 1998 and is the 5th stop westbound on the Westside MAX. This is the first stop after the Robertson Tunnel 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.[2] Though the station has a Portland address, it primarily serves residents of the communities of Cedar Hills, Cedar Mill, and Beaverton.
Named for the adjacent Sunset Highway (part of U.S. 26), the transit center also has a pedestrian bridge over that freeway, to connect to the Cedar Hills Shopping Center and Cedar Hills neighborhood.[3] 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 Oregon Route 217. Multiple bus stops are located around the top of the station pit, and at the station's west end is a two-story park-and-ride garage with 622 parking spaces on three levels (the top level is open). The garage includes a 74-space secured parking area for bicycles,[4] opened in 2010. The park-and-ride is the busiest park-and-ride in TriMet's system.[4]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
oreg-1997marwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Rose, Joseph (November 15, 2012) [online date Nov. 14]. "Speeding BMW goes airborne, takes out pair of MAX lines". The Oregonian. p. C1. Archived from the original on November 17, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- ^ Hamilton, Don (June 18, 1998). "Footbridge over Sunset Highway will reopen by early August after repairs". The Oregonian, weekly "Portland" section, p. 10.
- ^ a b Rose, Joseph (July 29, 2010). "Sunset Transit Center now holds eight fewer cars -- but 74 more bikes". The Oregonian. Retrieved July 24, 2011.