Expo Center station
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Delta Park/Vanport | Yellow Line | Terminus |
Expo Center is a light rail station on the MAX Yellow Line in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the last stop northbound on the Interstate MAX extension.
This station is a large park-and-ride station located on the grounds of the Portland Expo Center. It is set up as a modified side platform station, with the two platforms serving three tracks. The extra track allows the storage of an overflow train for events at the Expo Center. The 300 park-and-ride spaces are free for commuters arriving before 10 am on weekdays for a maximum 24 hours. At all other times, drivers must pay the Expo Center's usual $7–8 parking fee.
Although tracks and electrification end directly inside the station, it is designed to allow a future northbound extension (to Vancouver, Washington) to be easily constructed.
Both the landscaping and the artwork at the station are themed in a Japanese style. This recalls the temporary Civilian Assembly Center that existed here during the early days of World War II, which processed Japanese-Americans upon the enforcement of Executive Order 9066.[1]
Bus line connections
This station is at the Expo Center served by the following bus line:
- 11 - Rivergate/Marine Dr
Unique station features
The station includes several unique decorative features relating to the internment camp theme:[2]
- Timber Gateway: Traditional Japanese Gates, with steel internment tags strung among them
- Bronze Trunks: Provide additional seating.
- Bamboo Glass Blocks
- Plaque: A plaque showing the prohibited area as defined in Exclusion Order #26 for those of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien.
- Timber gateway and a waiting train. Facsimiles of historical newspaper headlines are at the base of the wooden poles.
- Timber gateway strung with replica steel internment tags.
- Example of etchings on timbers.
- Close-up of bamboo glass blocks on systems building.
- Bronze trunk seating. Inset shows tiled box from the other trunk.
- A plaque of the exclusion order #26, showing the prohibited area.
References
External links
- Station information from TriMet
- MAX Light Rail Stations – more general TriMet page
- Park and Ride Locations – general TriMet page
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- Statue of Paul Bunyan
- Voices of Remembrance
- Expo Center station
- Kenton/North Denver Avenue station
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