It is also the last station before the long three-mile tunnel under Washington Park. After departing the station, you will see a stone-arch bridge which carries Vista Avenue high over the MAX tracks and the adjacent street, SW Jefferson. Westbound MAX detrains passengers. The design of the Jefferson Street station is intended to express the spirit of an urban neighborhood constantly under pressure to change. A map of a narrow swath of the neighborhood appears on the platforms.
Streets are tile and surface areas are concrete.
The map becomes three dimensional as buildings and houses rise up to become seating. Etchings on the four shelter canopies create active connections with the platform map and the neighborhood beyond. Shadows of the drawing of buildings and streets on the canopy roughly line up with the streets on the platform. Kings Hill shares its windows with this station. If you look closely, you will see that this platform is made up of bricks formed as a map.