Clackamas Town Center Transit Center

Clackamas Town Center Transit Center
The light rail station in 2010
Location	9225 SE Sunnyside Road, Happy Valley, Oregon USA
Coordinates	45°26′08″N 122°34′04″W / 45.435605°N 122.567678°W / 45.435605; -122.567678Coordinates: 45°26′08″N 122°34′04″W / 45.435605°N 122.567678°W / 45.435605; -122.567678
Owned by	TriMet
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	TriMet buses
Construction
Parking	750-space park and ride garage
Bicycle facilities	Racks & 8 lockers
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	Original location (buses only): June 1981 Current location (with light rail station): September 12, 2009
Services
Preceding station   MAX Light Rail   Following station SE Fuller Rd toward PSU South Green Line Terminus

The Clackamas Town Center Transit Center is a bus transit center and MAX Light Rail station on the MAX Green Line, located in Clackamas County, Oregon, in the southeastern part of the Portland metropolitan area. It is the southern terminus for the I-205 MAX branch.

Owned by regional transit agency TriMet, the current transit center opened in 2009 and is located on the east side of the Clackamas Town Center mall, adjacent to Interstate 205. An earlier transit center at the mall had opened in 1981.

The first Clackamas Town Center Transit Center opened in 1981 and was located on the north side of the shopping mall, next to the movie theater and Meier & Frank store. Buses began serving the site of the transit center (TC) on June 14, 1981, but construction of the TC's passenger facilities was still under way at that time. An island with a large passenger shelter in the middle was constructed, with buses looping clockwise around it and serving stops designated for each route. This was completed in the fall and came into use on November 22, 1981.

The transit center was funded by a combination of a $350,000 grant from the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration and $50,000 from the mall's owner, The Hahn Company, but $90,000 of the UMTA grant was for transit improvements elsewhere at the then-new shopping mall, including a park-and-ride lot to the east of the mall (near where the MAX station was built many years later) and a signalized bus-only exit road onto Sunnyside Road. Only three bus routes served the transit center originally, routes 72-82nd Avenue, 76-King Road and 78-Linwood, but other routes were added later, including 79-Canby in 1982. In 1985, routes 31-Estacada and 71-Killingsworth-60th were diverted or extended to the Clackamas TC, route 78 was renumbered 28, and route 76 was replaced by 29 Lake-Webster and a change in route 31. Other changes to the bus service have been made in subsequent years, and a list of routes currently using the TC is given later in this article.