PSU South MAX station

The PSU South/Southwest College Street and PSU South/Southwest Jackson Street stations will be light rail stations on the MAX Green and Yellow lines in Portland, Oregon and are projected to open in 2011.^[1][2] Together, they will serve as the southern terminus—one for departures only and the other for arrivals only—of the Portland Transit Mall MAX line. The PSU Urban Center/Southwest 6th & Montgomery Street and PSU Urban Center/Southwest 5th & Mill Street stations will temporarily serve as the southern terminus in the interim.

The stations will be built into the sidewalks of 5th and 6th Avenue, with the 5th Avenue platform being for southbound trains and the 6th Avenue platform for northbound trains. Each will extend along the entire block face from Jackson Street to College Street, but their names refer only to the cross street located at the head end of a train stopping there. There are three loop tracks immediately south of the stations that allow southbound trains access to 6th Avenue from 5th, similar to the three-track loop near the Library/Southwest 9th Avenue and Galleria/Southwest 10th Avenue stations. The stations are located on the campus of Portland State University.

As of September 2009, construction of the two stations has yet to begin, because TriMet, operator of the MAX system, is working with PSU officials on finalizing plans to redevelop the block of property adjacent to (and between) the two station sites as transit-oriented development.^[2]

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