# Talk:Beaverton Transit Center

The Beaverton TC is older than 1998; I used it regularly in 1995.  It wasn't a light rail station until 1998, but... 71.32.251.8 10:12, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

(Should of posted this sooner, but) I'm pretty sure this is correct.  I've saved a bunch of TriMet stuff from NewsBank (Oregonian archives) and should dig up the articles on BTC.  I think it said that MAX was originally planned to go on the south side of the bus bays (maybe where the commuter rail will be) and that the transit center may have been re-constructed for the MAX opening (like the operator break room expansion when the Red Line extension).  In fact, I think I even have the articles about the actual TC opening.  Lastly, I think I just discovered that the bus bays from the old Beaverton Transit Center still exist...but maybe not for long, as it sounds like the street may be closed as part of commuter rail construction[1].  Check out 45.487324°N 122.801266°W﻿ / 45.487324; -122.801266.
Oh, and there's some nice views of MAX and buses at the TC on Microsoft's Live Maps birds-eye [2] --Jason McHuff (talk) 06:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I need to point out that I believe both Beaverton Transit Center and Cedar Hills Transit Center, the latter of which had been superseded by the Sunset Transit Center as of 1998 (when Westside MAX to Hillsboro had officially opened), had originally opened around September 3, 1978 (which also appears to coincide with TriMet's "Tri It" campaign); they are both mentioned in the revised Orange Deer (West) service area route updates (one page before the route updates for areas other than the Orange Deer area) that appear at the end of TriMet's 1978 Trip Atlas. 
Why am I saying this, for all those TriMet history buffs??? The June 17, 1979 date in TriMet's timeline of events to 1993 (from their 1994 calendar) refers only to when timed transfers had been inaugurated at the then-nearly-a-year-old and original Beaverton TC. 
But if the June 1979 date you found is true, then that would also mean that such other updates like the new routing for Milwaukie Transit Center (from SE 21st Ave. & Monroe St. to SE 21st Ave. & Jackson St., where it remains to this day), and the route extensions for 71-Killingsworth (now 72-Killingsworth-82nd Avenue) to NE 92nd & Sandy and 75-39th Avenue (now 75-Lombard-39th Avenue) to Milwaukie, and three new routes to Swan Island (25-Portland-Swan Island, 92-Gresham-Swan Island and 93-Oregon City-Swan Island) would have happened in this same old time period.
WikiPro1981X (talk) 03:36, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

No, the 1978 "Tri-Met Ride Atlas" does not show Beaverton or Cedar Hills TCs, only the "Beaverton Park-and-Ride", which was in a different location (where the Beaverton Town Square shopping center now sits, just west of Fred Meyer), was just a bus stop, and (the parking lot) closed in 1979. Tri-Met printed an update to the "Atlas" – in the same cartographic style – to reflect all of the extensive westside service changes (several new routes created, etc.) that took effect June 17, 1979. The only copies I have of that 'Tri-Met Ride Atlas'-style update are a separate Deer-area-only leaflet, not an addition "at the end" of the full-system "Atlas", but from your comments it sounds as though the agency made a few of the latter.  Anyway, I have Oregonian articles from early 1979 making it clear that the Beaverton and Cedar Hills Transit Centers did not open until June 1979, and I intend to add them (as citations) to this article and the List of TriMet transit centers article when I have time, but these are low-readership articles, so it's not an urgent priority for me.  As one example: The Oregonian of May 22, 1979, pg. W1, first sentence: "Construction will begin soon on two Tri-Met transfer stations in Beaverton and Cedar Hills as part of increased bus service scheduled to start June 17." SJ Morg (talk) 04:50, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Please see the revisions I made in my original message. WikiPro1981X (talk) 19:54, 26 December 2010 (UTC)