Wow, that's rough. The max is such a great way to get to and from the airport.
First I've heard about it too - thanks for sharing!
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Thank you for sharing. I have a friend coming into town for a conference in a couple of weeks and they were all told to take the red line to their hotel.
We rode through on Sunday and, yeah, looks like a big project. I'm still not 100% sure what they're trying to do. Looks like improving the arrival and departure tracks?
Looks like adding a second track:
add a second track to sections of the Red Line between the Gateway Transit Center and PDX, which TriMet says will improve system-wide reliability.
The timing seems questionable though. I'd think that any time other than our absolute peak travel season would have been better.
It's part of a multi year long project, they may or may not have planned for that, but the timing of things can deviate from the schedule anyway where it's gonna be a risk
Construction in the mud would probably take even longer though.