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.

  • crowsbyOP
    4·
    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.

    • OrangeSlice
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s part of a multi year long project, they may or may not have planned for that, but the timing of things can deviate from the schedule anyway where it’s gonna be a risk