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/// September 2025 ///
📨 Service Cuts Survey & Open Houses 🏠
Due to a growing budget gap, we must cut some TriMet service starting in November 2025. Share your feedback to help us shape the future of our transit service.
You can also attend one of our upcoming open houses.
🚊 MAX Gets Improvements 🚊
We're making improvements to two separate sections of the MAX system in October that require service disruptions for eastside riders.
🔵🟢🔴 MAX Blue, Green and Red lines will be disrupted along Interstate 84, between the Rose Quarter Transit Center and Gateway/NE 99th Ave Transit Center on Sunday, October 12.
Shuttle buses will replace MAX Blue, Green and Red Line trains, arriving at closed stations approximately every seven minutes for most of the day. Please plan extra time for your trips through the disrupted area.
🔴 MAX Red Line service will be disrupted between Gateway Transit Center and Portland International Airport from Monday, October 13 through Saturday, October 18.
Shuttle buses will replace Red Line trains, running approximately every 15 minutes for most of the day. Riders heading to and from Portland International Airport should plan extra time for their trips and expect shuttle buses to be crowded.
🚌 New Bus Shelters 🚌
Say "hello!" to one of our new bus shelters! We have three new shelter types we're rolling out to replace our existing ones. We've also got new, bigger shelters coming to our transit centers to accommodate more people.
This is the first one to be installed, at NE 122nd and Multnomah for Line 73-122nd Ave riders. Others will be installed on our busiest bus lines in Portland to start, then we hope to add them to other lines over the next decade. The new shelters will replace our oldest shelters (some are over 20 years old!).
It has been 30 years since we updated our shelters' design. Here's what makes these new shelters awesome:
- A more open design
- Lighting and transit arrival screens powered by solar at some locations
- More overhead coverage to keep riders out of the elements
- Durable and shatter-resistant polycarbonate on some shelters
- Removable panels to improve circulation
- Locally made
More to come!
🏆 Get There Challenge 🏆
Want to win cool prizes just for riding transit? 😍 We’re hosting a transit challenge through October 14 with weekly prizes for riders who log their rides on TriMet buses and trains, Portland Streetcar or SMART Wilsonville transit! 🚌 🚄
It’s easy to join the challenge. Just log your transit trips October 1–14, 2025 on the Get There Oregon page. After logging a trip each week, you'll automatically be entered into a weekly prize raffle.
🎂 10 Years of Tilikum Crossing 🎉
September marked the 10-year anniversary of Tilikum Crossing, which opened September 12, 2015! 🎉
In this video, a MAX test train rolls over the bridge for the first time. Engineers were making sure that the overhead catenary system worked to supply power to the trains and signals. The first test trains traveled at walking speed 🚶
Tilikum Crossing is the first multi-modal bridge in the United States that carries light rail, streetcar, buses, bicyclists and pedestrians, but no private vehicles 🌉 And it's our favorite bridge of all time! 😍
🤳 We're TikTok-ers Now 🤳
Shoutout to TikTok user "Confetti" 🎉 You did indeed stumble upon our official TikTok account :)
🤓 MPact Conference 🤓
When: October 26–29
Where: Hilton Portland Downtown and more locations
Registration for the Mpact Transit + Community Conference is open! It's a great educational and networking event for those interested in transit-oriented development and learning about the future of transit.
🧛 Spooky Season Means Transit Costumes 🧛
Our riders are SO creative, and we can't wait to see what costumes you come up with this Halloween! Are you going to make and wear a TriMet-themed costume? Tag us in your photos or videos so we can repost them :)
Instagram: @trimet
TikTok: @trimetpdx
MAX Lego Set Giveaway
What has 193 pieces, a nod to The Simpsons and features an FX bus? The FX LEGO set! We have one of these incredibly cool, unassembled boxed sets to giveaway.
Employees of TriMet and immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of employees are not eligible.
📸 Vintage Pic of the Month 📸
Sweet bus lineup back in the late 80s or early 90s at SW 6th and Morrison:
See you in October! 🎃
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