Quatama

Quatama/Northwest 205th Avenue

MAX Light Rail Station

Location

350 NW 205th Avenue
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA

Coordinates

45°31′23″N 122°53′19″W / 45.523127°N 122.888732°WCoordinates: 45°31′23″N 122°53′19″W / 45.523127°N 122.888732°W

Owned by

TriMet

Platforms

1 island platform

Tracks

Construction

Parking

310 park and ride spaces

Bicycle facilities

Lockers and racks

Disabled access

Yes

History

Opened

September 12, 1998

Services

Preceding station		MAX Light Rail		Following station
Orenco/NW 231st Ave toward Hatfield Government Center		Blue Line		Willow Creek Transit Center toward Cleveland Ave

Quatama/Northwest 205th Avenue is a light rail station on the MAX Blue Line in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. The station is the 13th stop westbound on the Westside MAX from Downtown Portland and includes a park-and-ride lot. Quatama Station is named after the area which includes Quatama Road to the south of the station. Opened in 1998, the stop is near high-tech industries and the Amberglen business park that includes Oregon Health & Science University's West Campus in Hillsboro that includes the Oregon National Primate Research Center.

During the planning stages of the light rail line, Hillsboro rezoned much of the area around the station to increase building densities. Initial planning for a light rail line on Portland's west side began in 1979, with groundbreaking on the Westside MAX project coming in 1993. On September 12, 1998, the Quatama station opened along with the Westside MAX line. The area around the station was named Quatama after the former station on the Oregon Electric Railway. That train stop was near the current one and was on property owned by the Oregon Nursery Company and settled in part by Hungarians.

In 1998, and again in 2004, the weather vane at the station was vandalized. Within several months of opening, the park-and-ride lot was at 92% capacity and by July 1999, the lot was filled to capacity during the peak travel times on the MAX line. A fight injured a 17-year-old at the station in October 2000. Hillsboro planned to improve street connections to the station as part of the planned redevelopment in the south Tanasbourne area announced in 2006.

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