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MAX Light Rail, or Metropolitan Area Express, is a light rail system consisting of five separate lines (Blue, Green, Orange, Red, and Yellow lines) serving 97 stations in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon. The system has had an average weekday ridership between 115,000 and 130,000 since Fiscal Year 2010. It is owned and operated by TriMet and began service in 1986. From its inception until 2004, about $3 billion was invested in light rail in Portland. ==Early system history== In the mid-1970s, TriMet (or ''Tri-Met'', as it was known until 2002) began a study for light rail using funds intended for the cancelled Mount Hood Freeway. The light rail project was known as the Banfield Light Rail Project, named for the freeway (I-84) that part of the alignment followed. The TriMet board approved the project in September 1978.〔Hortsch, Dan (September 27, 1978). "Tri-Met board votes to back Banfield light-rail project". ''The Oregonian'', p. F1.〕 Construction of the route started in 1982,〔Federman, Stan (March 27, 1982). "At ground-breaking: Festivities herald transitway". ''The Oregonian'', p. A12.〕 and the system opened on September 5, 1986.〔Koberstein, Paul (September 7, 1986). "Riders swamp light rail as buses go half-full and schedules go by the way". ''The Oregonian'', p. A1.〕 Of the project's total cost of $214 million, 83 percent was funded by the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration (now known as the Federal Transit Administration).〔Federman, Stan (September 5, 1986). "All aboard! MAX on track; ride free". ''The Oregonian'', p. A1.〕 Less than two months before the opening, TriMet adopted the name ''Metropolitan Area Express'', or ''MAX'', for the new system following an employee contest.〔Tri-Met (July 25, 1986). ''Light rail name announced''. Press release.〕 As planning of a second light rail line, to the west side, gained momentum in the late 1980s, the MAX line came to be referred to as the ''Eastside'' MAX line, so as to distinguish it from the Westside MAX project. The Westside line, to Beaverton and Hillsboro, began construction in 1993 and opened in 1998. Except for a few rush-hour trips, all trips on the now-two light rail lines were connected in downtown. The resulting east-west line has always been operated as a single, through route, and it became known as the Blue Line in 2001, after TriMet adopted color designations for its separate light rail routes.〔Stewart, Bill (September 21, 2000). "Local colors roll out: Tri-Met designates the Blue, Red and Yellow lines". ''The Oregonian''.〕 ==Current system== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MAX Light Rail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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