Lloyd Center/Northeast 11th Avenue is a light rail station on the MAX

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. It is the 10th stop eastbound on the Eastside MAX. The station is located on the 1200 block of Northeast Holladay Street in Lloyd District. The station serves the

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shopping mall to the north; between the station and the mall is Holladay Park. The station also serves

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to the south. From its opening in 1986Federman, Stan (September 5, 1986). "Going to the MAX: Facts to know about the new line".''

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'', special section ("Light rail rolls"), p. T10. until 2012, the station was located in TriMet fare zone 1, and starting in 2001 it was also within

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(renamed the Free Rail Zone in 2010). However, effective September 1, 2012, TriMet discontinued the free-ride zone and all use of zones in its fare structure.

Bus line connections

As of September 2012, this station is served by the following bus lines: *8 - Jackson

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/NE 15th *70 - 12th/NE 33rd Ave * C-Tran 157 - Lloyd District Express

11th Avenue spur

Vintage Trolley car at Lloyd Center terminal on NE 11th Ave in 2009

To the northwest of the station is a short spur track on Northeast 11th Avenue now used only for temporary storage of MAX trains for use after major

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events. The spur was built for use by the

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, and from 1991 to 2009 that was its primary use. At the end of the spur, at the southern edge of Multnomah Street, is a small platform for use by Vintage Trolley (VT) cars, that service's Northeast 11th Avenue station, and it was equipped with a shelter. However, in September 2009, the Vintage Trolley service moved to a new route along the

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, and with that change the faux-vintage cars only went to and from the NE 11th Avenue stop at the beginning and end of each VT operating day''

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'' magazine, December 2009, p. 480. UK: LRTA Publishing. ISSN 1460-8324. (of which there were about 25 in 2010, but reduced to only seven in 2011) and otherwise operated solely within

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. The Vintage Trolley service was discontinued entirely in July 2014.

References

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MAX station information (with westbound ID number)
from

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MAX station information (with eastbound ID number)
from TriMet

– more general TriMet page {{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd Center Northeast 11th Avenue MAX Light Rail stations MAX Blue Line MAX Red Line MAX Green Line Railway stations in the United States opened in 1986 1986 establishments in Oregon Lloyd District, Portland, Oregon Sullivan's Gulch, Portland, Oregon Railway stations in Portland, Oregon