Four-Month Pause on MAX Red Line Service to PDX Starts This Weekend
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The longest service interruption in TriMet's history is set to start Sunday, June 18. The public transit agency will halt MAX Red Line service between the Gateway Transit Center and Portland International Airport (PDX) for 126 days. The closure will leave PDX and three other Red Line stops—Mt. Hood, Cascades, and the Parkrose/Sumner Transit Center—without light rail service as TriMet works to complete renovations for its "A Better Red" project....

The longest service interruption in TriMet’s history is set to start Sunday, June 18. The public transit agency will halt MAX Red Line service between the Gateway Transit Center and Portland International Airport (PDX) for 126 days.

  • Jordan Lund
    2·
    1 year ago

    We rode through on Sunday and, yeah, looks like a big project. I’m still not 100% sure what they’re trying to do. Looks like improving the arrival and departure tracks?

    • crowsby@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Looks like adding a second track:

      add a second track to sections of the Red Line between the Gateway Transit Center and PDX, which TriMet says will improve system-wide reliability.

      The timing seems questionable though. I’d think that any time other than our absolute peak travel season would have been better.

    • easydnesto@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      Here’s the project sheet from trimet’s website. I had no idea that they were also expanding the red line out to the fair complex in Hillsboro. Also looks like the red line will have it’s own platform at Gateway instead of sharing the platform with blue and green lines. Which allows the red line to use two tracks instead of the single track that exists now to get to the airport from Gateway TC. I’m not sure how they plan to increase times though when there are so many trains on the shared line through downtown Portland already.