Episode 1527
MAX Orange Line
Sat, 2021-Jul-10 00:32 UTC
Length - 3:18
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The featured article for Saturday, 10 July 2021 is MAX Orange Line.
The MAX Orange Line is a light rail service in Portland, Oregon, United States, operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It connects Portland City Center to Portland State University (PSU), Southeast Portland, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove. The Orange Line starts near Portland Union Station heading southbound within downtown Portland along the Portland Transit Mall on 5th Avenue. From the transit mall, it continues along a 7.3-mile (11.7 km) segment, which runs through the South Waterfront, across the Willamette River into Southeast Portland, then south to Oak Grove, just outside Milwaukie proper in unincorporated Clackamas County. The Orange Line serves 17 stations from Union Station/Northwest 5th & Glisan to Southeast Park Avenue and runs for 201⁄2 hours daily with a minimum headway of 15 minutes during most of the day. The line carried an average of 3,480 daily weekday riders in September 2020.
The Portland–Milwaukie Light Rail Project was the second and final phase of the South Corridor Transportation Project that in its first phase expanded light rail services to Interstate 205 (I-205) and the Portland Transit Mall. The Portland–Milwaukie extension, which followed years of failed light rail plans for Clackamas County, began construction work in mid-2011. As part of the project, TriMet built Tilikum Crossing over the Willamette River, the largest "car-free" bridge in the United States. The extension opened to Orange Line service on September 12, 2015.
Within the Portland Transit Mall, the Orange Line operates as a southbound through service of the Yellow Line from Union Station/Northwest 5th & Glisan station, sharing the tracks on 5th Avenue with the Green Line. From PSU South/Southwest 6th and College station, the Orange Line operates through to the Yellow Line as a northbound service on 6th Avenue, terminating at Expo Center station in North Portland.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:32 UTC on Saturday, 10 July 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see MAX Orange Line on Wikipedia.
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