Gresham Central Transit Center

Gresham Central Transit Center
MAX light rail station

Gresham Central Transit Center viewed from the west, across Hood Avenue
Station statistics
Address 350 NE 8th Street
Gresham, OR 97080
Lines MAX Light Rail
  Blue Line
Platforms Side platform
Tracks 2
Parking 540 spaces
Bicycle facilities bike racks and lockers
Other information
Opened 1981/82 (bus)
September 5, 1986 (MAX)
Accessible
Owned by TriMet
Fare zone 3
Services
Preceding station   MAX Light Rail   Following station
Blue Line
Terminus

The Gresham Central Transit Center station, also known as Gresham Transit Center, is a TriMet transit center and MAX light rail station in Gresham, Oregon, United States. The center is a connection point for several bus routes and the MAX Blue Line. The light rail station is the 25th stop eastbound on the Eastside MAX line, which was the Portland metropolitan area's first light rail line.

The transit center is located at the intersection of NE Kelly Avenue and NE 8th Street in the central part of Gresham. It is a hub for bus service to points in eastern Multnomah County and Portland.

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History and description

It originally opened as a bus-only transit center in 1981, named Gresham Transit Center, in the form of multiple bus stops clustered along 8th Street and Kelly Avenue, a temporary arrangement until construction of a planned off-street facility. The off-street bus layover area – a short section of bus-only road with purpose-built bus stops – was opened in February 1982.[1]

The adjacent MAX station opened in 1986, and the entire facility was renamed Gresham Central Transit Center at that time. However, TriMet continues to refer to it as Gresham Transit Center (or Gresham TC) on bus destination signs and bus schedules. The station originally had no park-and-ride lot, but TriMet built and opened a three-level garage with a ground-floor retail space in 1996.[2] A 30-space bike-and-ride facility (a secured parking area for bicycles) was built later, inside the garage, and opened in July 2011.[3]

Public art at the transit station includes "The Living Room", a sculpture comprising vintage furniture cast in concrete and a faux television set cast in bronze, which was installed in 2001 through a public art program.[4]

Bus service

This station is served by the following bus lines:

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tri-Met hails bus line successes". The Oregonian, January 27, 1982, p. B4
  2. ^ Briggs, Kara (July 15, 1996). "A new city hall in town". The Oregonian (East Metro edition), p. B2.
  3. ^ Rose, Joseph (July 18, 2011). "TriMet opens Gresham, Beaverton bike-and-rides, hopes facilities used more than first". The Oregonian. http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2011/07/trimet_opens_gresham_beaverton.html. Retrieved December 17, 2011. 
  4. ^ Genovese, Fran (November 6, 2008). "Trouble in Gresham's 'Living Room'". The Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2008/11/trouble_in_greshams_living_roo.html. Retrieved December 17, 2011. 

External links

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