Sunset Transit Center

Sunset Transit Center
MAX light rail station
General information
Location	10470 Southwest Barnes Road Portland, OR 97225
Owned by	TriMet
Line(s)	MAX Light Rail
Platforms	Side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	579 regular spaces 13 accessible/disabled spaces 2 Quick Drop spaces 16 carpool spaces 12 short-term parking spaces
Bicycle facilities	74-space secure area
Accessible	Accessible to people with mobility devices
History
Opened	September 12, 1998 (parking garage opened March 3, 1997, served by one bus route)
Services
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The Sunset Transit Center is a TriMet bus transit center and light rail station on the MAX Blue and Red lines in Washington County, Oregon. It is the 5th stop westbound on the Westside MAX. This is the first stop after the Roberston Tunnel under Portland's West Hills. Named for the adjacent Sunset Highway (part of U.S. 26), the transit center also has a pedestrian bridge over that freeway, to connect to the Cedar Hills Shopping Center. Several bus routes serve the center.

The transit center's MAX platforms are below street level, set in an open cut, immediately west of an unnamed 600-foot-long tunnel to the shoulder of Oregon Route 217. Multiple bus stops are located around the top of the station pit, and at the station's west end is a two-story park-and-ride garage with 622 parking spaces on three levels (the top level is open). The garage includes a mostly unused 74-space secured parking area for bicycles, opened in 2010. The park-and-ride is the busiest park-and-ride in TriMet's system.

History

The parking garage opened on March 3, 1997, served by a single bus line (89) whose route was altered for the purpose, because its construction was completed well ahead of the opening of the Westside MAX line. Route 89 provided service between downtown Portland and Rock Creek at that time.

The bus portion of the transit center

The transit center effectively opened on September 12, 1998, with the start of MAX service and the addition of several more bus routes, the latter altered to serve Sunset TC in place of the 1979-opened Cedar Hills Transit Center, located on the other side of the freeway (and closed permanently on this date).

TriMet converted eight automobile parking spaces to a secure bicycle parking area, opening in July 2010. The bicycle parking cage was built at a cost of $275,000 and has a capacity of 74 bicycles. It averages 1.2 bicycles per day, with a concurrent maximum of seven bicycles.

Bus service

This station is served by the following Bus lines:

• 20 - Burnside/Stark
• 47 - Baseline/Evergreen
• 48 - Cornell
• 50 - Cedar Mill
• 59 - Walker/Park Way
• 62 - Murray Blvd
• Tillamook County Transportation District (TCTD) service to Oregon Coast
• Forest Heights Shuttle

Note: The discontinued line 89-Tanasbourne served this station until September 1, 2012.

See also

• List of TriMet transit centers

External links

• Transit Centers – TriMet page
• MAX Light Rail Stations – TriMet page
• Park & Ride Locations – TriMet page
• Tillamook County Transportation District