The Clackamas Town Center Transit Center is a

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and

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station on the

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, located in

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, in the southeastern part of the

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. It is the southern terminus for the I-205 MAX branch. Owned by regional transit agency

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, the current transit center opened in 2009 and is located on the east side of the

Clackamas Town Center Clackamas Town Center is a shopping mall established in 1981Sorenson, Donald J. (March 7, 1981). "Clackamas Town Center opens its doors". '' The Oregonian'', p. A19. in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area, located on unincorporated land in the ...

mall, adjacent to

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. An earlier transit center at the mall had opened in 1981.

History

Original location

The first Clackamas Town Center Transit Center opened in 1981 and was located on the north side of the shopping mall, next to the movie theater and

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store. Buses began serving the site of the transit center (TC) on June 14, 1981, but construction of the TC's passenger facilities was still under way at that time.Kohler, Vince (June 30, 1981). "Clackamas center builds bus facility". ''

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'' ("MetroSouth" edition), p. MS1. An island with a large passenger shelter in the middle was constructed, with buses looping clockwise around it and serving stops designated for each route. This was completed in the fall and came into use on November 22, 1981. The transit center was funded by a combination of a $350,000 grant from the federal

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and $50,000 from the mall's owner,

the Hahn Company The Hahn Company, San Diego, California, alternately known as Ernest W. Hahn, Inc., was a major American shopping center owner and developer from the 1950s to the 1980s. Purchased by the Trizec Corp. in 1980 (which then took the name TrizecHahn), ...

, but $90,000 of the UMTA grant was for transit improvements elsewhere at the then-new shopping mall, including a park-and-ride lot to the east of the mall (near where the MAX station was built many years later) and a signalized bus-only exit road onto Sunnyside Road. Only three bus routes served the transit center originally, routes 72-82nd Avenue, 76-King Road and 78-Linwood, but other routes were added later, including 79-Canby in 1982. In 1985, routes 31-Estacada and 71-Killingsworth-60th were diverted or extended to the Clackamas TC, route 78 was renumbered 28, and route 76 was replaced by 29 Lake-Webster and a change in route 31.Cochran, Wanda (September 27, 1985). "Tri-Met slates Milwaukie–Clackamas changes". ''The Oregonian'' (South Metro edition), p. G6. Other changes to the bus service have been made in subsequent years, and a list of routes currently using the TC is given later in this article.

Closure and temporary location

Expansion of the mall brought about the closure of the original transit center in June 2006, with the TC temporarily moved just to the east of the 1981 site, and then in December 2007 settling on a new "permanent" configuration in which all bus routes served a single westbound stop or, in the case of route 31 only, eastbound stop, still located next to the movie theater but on the main roadway, not using a bus-only road or loop. By this time TriMet had given final approval to the extension of the

to Clackamas Town Center and planned to construct a new transit center at the site of the MAX station, which would be next to the I-205 freeway on the east side of the mall.

Current site and MAX station

Clackamas Town Center TC - parking garage and departure bus stop

Clackamas Town Ctr TC - bus arrival stop and MAX stn

The new Clackamas Town Center TC and Green Line MAX station opened on September 12, 2009. It has a three-story, 750-space

park-and-ride A park and ride, also known as incentive parking or a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system (rapi ...

garage, and is served by 10 bus lines. The light-rail station is set up as an island platform station. Additionally, it has a single-track stub extending south of the station, for the storage of an overflow or out-of-service (defective) train. The I-205 Bike Path passes by the transit center.

Bus lines

Along with the MAX Green Line, the transit center is served by the following bus lines: *29 - Lake/Webster Rd. *30 - Estacada *31 - Webster Rd. *33 - McLoughlin/King Rd. *34 - Linwood/River Rd. *71 - 60th Ave. *72 - Killingsworth/82nd Ave. *79 - Clackamas/ Oregon City *152 - Milwaukie *155 - Sunnyside *156 - Mather Road

References

External links

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– TriMet page {{TriMet railway stations, Green=y MAX Light Rail stations MAX Green Line Railway stations in the United States opened in 2009 Transportation buildings and structures in Clackamas County, Oregon TriMet transit centers 1981 establishments in Oregon Railway stations in Clackamas County, Oregon