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 The transit center from Commercial Street in 2012 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Other names | Thomas M. Brian Tigard Transit Center[1] | ||||||||||
| Location | 8960 SW Commercial Street Tigard, Oregon, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°25′48″N122°46′10″W / 45.43013°N 122.769547°W /45.43013; -122.769547 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | TriMet | ||||||||||
| Line | Tigard branch | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Parking | 100 spaces | ||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1988 | ||||||||||
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| Fall 2019 | 1,627 weekday boardings[2] | ||||||||||
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Tigard Transit Center, formallyThomas M. Brian Tigard Transit Center, is atransport hub inTigard, Oregon, United States, that is owned and operated byTriMet. It is a transfer facility for bus routes mainly serving the westside communities of thePortland metropolitan area and the third southbound station fromBeaverton Transit Center onWES Commuter Rail. The transit center is located in downtown Tigard just south ofOregon Route 99W (OR 99W) on Commercial Street. It recorded 1,627 average weekday boardings in fall 2019. The facility opened in 1988 as a bus transit center, and a platform for WES was added in 2009.
Tigard Transit Center was designed bySkidmore, Owings & Merrill and opened for buses in 1988,[3] served by about 200 bus trips per day.[4] The design received a commendation from the local chapter of theAmerican Institute of Architects in 1988.[3] The site already had aGreyhound bus station (located in an adjacent storefront), which remained there after the transit center's opening[4] but moved to a location on Main Street in the 1990s.
Plans for a rail connection started as early as 1991 when a proposal for alight rail line was studied, with the transit center as its southern terminus.[3] As of 2009, this line has not been built, but it is still planned with studies to begin as early as 2013.[5]
Plans for thecommuter rail service between Beaverton and Wilsonville began as early as 1996.[6] In 2001, theFederal Transit Administration authorized the project, and in 2004 it approved the project.[7] Construction began in October 2006.[8] The line is the first suburb-to-suburb commuter rail line in the United States, and the first commuter rail line inOregon.[9]
Groundbreaking for the rail station at the center was in December 2006, and was led by Oregon senatorsGordon Smith andRon Wyden.[10] The public artwork at the station was installed on September 3, 2008.[11] The line was opened on February 2, 2009.[12] In 2009, TriMet announced they would add additional bike lockers at the transit center usingfederal stimulus funds.[13] In May 2011, the transit center was dedicated as the Thomas M. Brian Tigard Transit Center in honor of former Tigard mayor and county commissionerThomas M. Brian, who had helped make the WES rail line a reality.[14]
The WES station is one of five on the 14.7-mile (23.7 km) rail line that utilizesPortland and Western Railroad's freight rail line.[15] Located in downtown Tigard on Commercial Street south ofOregon Route 99W, the station and line are only in operation during the morning and evening commute times from Monday through Friday.[16] The station has 100 parking spaces at itspark-and-ride lot and is served by seven bus lines.[16] The city allocated $100,000 for refurbishing the existingTriMet-operated bus transit center at the site,[17] which opened in 1988. At the northern terminus, theBeaverton Transit Center, passengers can connect toMAX Light Rail.
Public art at the station consists of an interactivesculpture created byFrank Boyden andBrad Rude.[18] The sculpture features bronze heads and a vehicle designed to represent the train and the variety of people who ride the line.[18] The vehicle moves along a track and has an animal figure displayed in a scene atop the piece.[18] Additionally, the station has amural along one of the walls.[18]
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As of October 2023, Tigard Transit Center is served by the following bus lines:
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