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Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project alignment overview

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Overview of the Portland - Milwaukie Light Rail alignment and features

The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project would construct a new 6.5-mile light rail line extending from Portland’s downtown transit mall at Southwest Jackson Street to a southern terminus at either Southeast Lake Road in Milwaukie or Southeast Park Avenue near Oak Grove. The line would include 11 to 13 new light rail stations and three to four new park and ride facilities with up to 2,600 new parking spaces. The line would also include a new bike, pedestrian and rail transit bridge across the Willamette River between the Marquam and Ross Island bridges.

The project is expected to serve an estimated 20,000 daily riders and will provide connections to the downtown transit mall, PSU, Riverplace and the South Waterfront, OHSU, the central eastside and OMSI, Southeast Portland, and Milwaukie.

An overview of the project alignment and detailed maps of each segment of the project are available below.

Files and related materials

• Fact Sheet: Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail alignment overview 2.2M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 16, 2007
• Map: Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project alignment 4.9M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 29, 2007
• Fact Sheet: North segment (Willamette River crossing) alignment overview 187K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 16, 2007
• Map: North segment (Willamette River crossing) options 697K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 29, 2007
• Fact Sheet: Central segment (Southeast Portland) alignment overview 128K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 16, 2007
• Map: Central segment (Southeast Portland) alignment 549K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 29, 2007
• Fact Sheet: South segment alignment overview 183K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published November 16, 2007
• Map: South segment alignment options 707K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 29, 2007
• Map: Complete south segment alignment options 671K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published October 29, 2007

Related Internet links

• TriMet: Portland Mall Light Rail

  (http://trimet.org/portlandmall)

• Federal Highway Administration

  (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov)

• Federal Transit Administration

  (http://www.fta.dot.gov)

• Portland Development Commission

  (http://www.pdc.us)

• TriMet: I-205 Light Rail

  (http://www.trimet.org/i205/index.htm)

• Federal Highway Administration, Oregon division

  (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ordiv/)