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Location | NE Orenco Station Loop Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 45°31′49″N 122°54′57″W / 45.530313°N 122.915769°W | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | TriMet | |||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
Parking | 125 spaces[1] | |||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Bike and ride and racks[2] | |||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | September 12, 1998 | |||||||||||||||
Previous names | Orenco/Northwest 231st Avenue (1998–2017) | |||||||||||||||
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Fall 2018 | 1,297 weekday boardings[3] | |||||||||||||||
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Orenco is a light rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States, served by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It is the seventh station eastbound on the Blue Line and the third station eastbound on the Red Line, situated between the Quatama and Hawthorn Farm stations. The two-track, island platform station serves the Orenco Station neighborhood, which is considered a model for smart growth and transit-oriented development. It features a 125-space park and ride, a bike and ride, and connections to TriMet bus route 47–Baseline/Evergreen and Ride Connection's North Hillsboro Link.
An Oregon Electric Railway (OE) depot of the same name served the area in the early 20th century. The TriMet station was built as part of the Westside MAX project, which extended MAX from downtown Portland to downtown Hillsboro in 1998. In 2017, TriMet simplified the station's name from "Orenco/Northwest 231st Avenue" after the city renamed Northwest 231st Avenue to Northeast Century Boulevard.