Tri-Met's MAX once again provides a quick and easy transportation link to the rest of the metropolitan area. Because of this station's location in the heart of historic downtown Hillsboro, the artists decided that it was the place to tell an informal people's history of Washington County. The artists identified objects and photographs that evoked the diversity of cultures from the area. From extensive research at the Washington County Historical Museum and numerous of personal interviews, the artists also collected various oral and written remembrances from the people of Washington County. These Voices, as they became known, are etched in granite and laid into the pavement surrounding the station.
Selections range from a frontiersman's diary to the poetry of a Japanese immigrant.
Other etchings depict the Oregon Electric Railroad circa 1920 and the plank road that connected Hillsboro to Portland at the turn of the century. A replica of the plank road that once ran from downtown Hillsboro to Portland is located in the central walkway through the main building. Photographs and cast bronze objects set into the building's niches celebrate local heritage and the area's different cultures. Images on the bus shelter windscreens north of the building show the Oregon Electric Railway station, and a view of 19th century Main Street. Engraved in three panes of the eastbound platform windscreen is an entertaining description of life in and around Hillsboro in 1874, written by longtime resident Albert Tozier when he was a young man.