| Kings Hill/Southwest Salmon MAX light rail station |
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| Address | Southwest Eighteenth Avenue & Salmon Street | |||||||||||||||
| Lines | MAX Light Rail | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 31, 1997 | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | ||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | TriMet | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1 | |||||||||||||||
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The Kings Hill/SW Salmon station is a light rail station on the MAX Blue and Red lines in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Its name refers to its proximity to the King's Hill Historic District, but it is not located within that district, the easternmost boundary of which is at SW 21st Avenue.[1] The station is located in the center of SW 18th Ave. and has a single platform between the tracks. The platforms are accessed from the left-hand side of the train.
Despite the Jeld-Wen Field eastbound station being only a few blocks away, the station was added at the request of the neighborhood. It provides service to Lincoln High School and the Multnomah Athletic Club. Though one of the least used downtown MAX stations, a new condominium development nearby is expected to boost ridership.[2]
Artwork around the station recalls Tanner Creek, which was filled in early in Portland's history, and a bronze goose paying tribute to the Goose Hollow neighborhood. Simpsons creator Matt Groening etched Bart Simpson into the east sidewalk of SW 18th Ave. in 1996 during the construction of this station. The City of Portland has opted to leave the sidewalk intact. SW 18th Ave. runs behind Lincoln High School, where Groening graduated in 1972.
The Washington Park Shuttle began serving this station in 2010.[3]