TriMet shares its thinking about Bybee MAX station plans

By Eric Norberg

The Bee, Nov 25, 2009

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Also causing some comment was the provision in the design for eastern-side widening S.E. McLoughlin Boulevard to three lanes each direction between Harold Street and Tacoma Street. However, this is not a TriMet plan; it’s a long-planned ODOT project, for which there has been and still is no funding. ODOT insists it will be done, but perhaps not for a couple of decades. But TriMet still has to allow space for the planned expansion.

TriMet also acknowledged the ongoing Westmoreland interest in a Harold Street station, by showing it on all route maps as a “future location”. The rails are to be constructed there in such a way as to allow a station to be added later, when funding is available for it.

The final design of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail line, and its stations and Park-and-Rides, is to be attained by sometime next year or in 2011; full funding is expected by 2012; Construction is planned for 2011-2015, and the line is projected to be open and running by 2015.

TriMet plans more meetings on aspects of the project, and develops mailing lists for meeting notifications from sign-in sheets at the meetings. They also notify the media, and THE BEE carries notice of such meetings affecting the area we serve in our monthly calendar listings.

For information on the project, call TriMet Community Affairs at 503/962-2150, or go online to: www.trimet.org/pm. You can sign up for e-mail meeting notifications there as well.

Also resources for the public are the 24 members of the project’s Citizen Advisory Committee. These include Michole Jensen, for Ardenwald-Johnson Creek; Lance Lindahl, for the Brooklyn neighborhood; Dan Packard for the Eastmoreland neighborhood; and Reid Kells for the Sellwood and Westmoreland neighborhoods.

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