TriMet News: (VIDEO) Join TriMet in celebrating 35 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Earlier this month, when TriMet’s “MAX Train 101” was loaded onto an oversized flatbed trailer and hauled down to the Oregon Electric Railway Museum’s permanent collection in Brooks, Oregon, it marked the beginning of the end of an era. 

For people in the region’s disability community, the farewell was more than nostalgic. It was liberating. 

Read more about TriMet’s legacy of accessibility and how our Committee on Accessible Transportation pushed for first-in-the-nation advancements for people with disabilities, as we mark the 35^th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It was signed into law on July 26, 1990.