Sunset Transit Center

The Sunset Transit Center is a TriMet bus transit center and light rail station on the MAX Blue and Red lines in Beaverton, Oregon. It opened for MAX in 1998 and is the 5th stop westbound on the Westside MAX. This is the first stop after the Robertson Tunnel under Portland's West Hills. Sunset TC is the second-busiest station on the Westside MAX line, with a weekday average of almost 6,000 daily riders in 2012. Though the station has a Portland address, it primarily serves residents of the communities of Cedar Hills, Cedar Mill, and Beaverton.

Sunset TC  
TriMet transit center
The transit center's bus bays in 2011
General information
Location10470 Southwest Barnes Road
Portland, Oregon
United States
Coordinates45°30′37″N 122°46′52″W
Owned byTriMet
PlatformsSide platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Parking579 regular spaces
13 accessible spaces
2 Quick Drop spaces
16 carpool spaces
12 short-term parking spaces
Bicycle facilities74-space secure area
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedSeptember 12, 1998
Parking garage and one bus line: March 3, 1997
Services
Preceding station TriMet Following station
Beaverton Transit Center Blue Line Washington Park
Beaverton Transit Center
Terminus
Red Line Washington Park

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 and Cedar Hills neighborhood. 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 74-space secured parking area for bicycles, opened in 2010. The park-and-ride is the busiest park-and-ride in TriMet's system.

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