Posted Sep 17, 2015, 12:17 AM
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I thought it was busy Saturday, but it's crazy how many people turned up to the opening of the original Eastside and Westside alignments of the MAX:
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How many rode Orange Line, Tilikum Crossing on opening day? Numbers are in
TriMet said riders made about 40,000 trips on it's new Orange Line on Saturday after it officially opened at 11 a.m.
That's a pretty solid opening for the $1.5-billion, 7.3-mile Orange Line. It ties the opening of the MAX Green Line on a Saturday back in 2009, while the Yellow Line opened to 20,000 rides in 2004.
When MAX debuted in 1986 with a Portland-to Gresham route, about 200,000 people rode what would become the Blue Line during its opening weekend, and 160,000 people rode the weekend the Westside expansion to Hillsboro opened in 1998.
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...continues at the Oregonian.
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