MAX Light Rail
Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) is a light rail system in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is operated by TriMet and currently has four lines: Blue, Green, Red and Yellow, with an Orange line currently under construction.
The number of weekday boardings on the MAX system averages between about 125,000 and 133,000 per day, depending on the time of year, but was 130,000 per day (weekdays) for the 12-month period from July 2011 through June 2012 (TriMet's Fiscal Year 2012) and has been as high as 134,300 per day in a given month. Total MAX ridership in FY2012 was 42.2 million. Since its inception about $3 billion has been invested in light rail in Portland (as of 2004).
Read more about MAX Light Rail: Early System History, General Description, Rolling Stock, Fares
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