DIVISION TRANSIT PROJECT Better bus service coming to SE Division The Division Transit Project will be a first for our community—high-capacity bus service providing faster, more reliable trips. As population and businesses along SE Division Street rapidly grow, impacts on traffic, including public transit, also increase. The Line 4-Division is one of TriMet’s most popular bus lines, with more than 10,000 daily rides between Downtown Portland and Gresham. With this high ridership come challenges, however, such as crowded buses, full buses passing riders waiting at stops, and traffic congestion behind buses making frequent stops to pick up riders. The Division Transit Project will improve service along Division and help keep traffic moving while supporting increasing ridership in the future. Faster, easier, more reliable The 14-mile Division Transit Project will improve bus service between Downtown Portland, Southeast and East Portland and Gresham by providing • longer, three-door buses with room for 60% more riders • bus stops expanded into stations, with amenities such as weather protection • multiple-door boarding for quicker stops • transit signal priority—traffic signals prioritize bus travel, getting riders to their destinations faster • stations placed where there is greatest rider demand, to maximize travel times while making important transit connections
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DIVISION TRANSIT PROJECT
Better bus service coming to SE Division The Division Transit Project will be a first for our community—high-capacity bus service providing faster, more reliable trips. As population and businesses along SE Division Street rapidly grow, impacts on traffic, including public transit, also increase. The Line 4-Division is one of TriMet’s most popular bus lines, with more than 10,000 daily rides between Downtown Portland and Gresham. With this high ridership come challenges, however, such as crowded buses, full buses passing riders waiting at stops, and traffic congestion behind buses making frequent stops to pick up riders. The Division Transit Project will improve service along Division and help keep traffic moving while supporting increasing ridership in the future.
Faster, easier, more reliable The 14-mile Division Transit Project will improve bus service between Downtown Portland, Southeast and East Portland and Gresham by providing
• longer, three-door buses with room for 60% more riders
• bus stops expanded into stations, with amenities such as weather protection
• multiple-door boarding for quicker stops
• transit signal priority—traffic signals prioritize bus travel, getting riders to their destinations faster
• stations placed where there is greatest rider demand, to maximize travel times while making important transit connections
New 60-foot articulated buses with multiple-door boarding make quicker stops at stations and faster trips possible.
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Division & Chavez
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Division & 60th
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Division & 85th
Division & 101st
Division & 112th
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Together, these improvements will reduce travel times up to 20 percent, with buses running every 15 minutes and even more often during rush hour.
Additionally, the project will build stations appropriate to their setting along Division Street. East of 82nd Avenue, stations will be large and comfortable with improved weather protection, lighting and passenger amenities. This portion of the route will include improved accessible ramps, sidewalks and pedestrian crossings around stations and major intersections.
Stations west of 82nd Avenue will see modest changes at stations to improve the rider experience, such as added weather protection.
Conceptual rendering subject to change; service branding to be determined.
FAST. EASY. RELIABLE.
WIL
LAM
ETTE
RI
VER
I-205
Division & 12th
OMSI/WaterLincoln5th & Hall
6th & Je�erson*
5th/6th & Salmon
6th & Wash
ington/
5th & Stark
South Waterfr
ont/
SW Moody
Division & 20th
Harriso
n & 7th
Hawthorne &7th/
Madiso
n & 7th
Main & 2nd/
Madiso
n & 1st
6th & Flanders/
5th & DavisIrving & 5th*
Division & 30th
Division & Chavez
Divisi
on & 51st
MHCC
Divisi
on & 68th
Division & 82nd
Divisi
on & MAX Green Line
Divisi
on & 109th
Division & 119th
Division & 127th
Division & 139th
Division & 148th
Division & 162nd
Division & 174th
Division & 190th
Division & Bella
Vista
Division & Eastm
an
Division & 26th
Division & 34th
Division & 45th
Division & 60th
Division & 76th
Division & 85th
Division & 101st
Division & 112th
Division & 122nd
Division & 135th
Division & 145th
Division & 156th
Division & 167th
Division & 182nd
Gresham Centra
l
Transit Center*
Division &
Gresham-Fairv
iew Trail
Division & W
allula/212th
Related bus service improvementsWhen this new high capacity bus service begins, it will replace Line-4 Division and those service hours from Line 4-Division will be reallocated to existing and new bus service in east Portland and east Multnomah County. The public outreach and comment process for specific allocation of those hours will begin about 18 months before the project’s scheduled opening, in 2021.
In addition, near-term improvements, including increased weekday frequency, will be made to Line 20-Burnside/Stark to better serve students and employees of Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham and connect them to the high capacity bus service when it opens in 2021.
Project FundingProject costs are approximately $175 million, with state, regional and local contributions making up $75 million of that total. The project plans to apply for $100 million in federal funding.
The project will connect Downtown Portland and Gresham, traveling on SE Division Street through southeast and east Portland to the Gresham Central Transit Center. Current plans call for this new service to cross the Willamette River over Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People, connecting the service with South Waterfront, OHSU, and PSU.
Division Transit Project alignmentAlternate river crossingLine 20 service to Mt. Hood Community College
Approximate station locations (in pairs, with one platform in each direction)*Stations with single platform
Available in other formatsDivision Transit Project Fact Sheet / December 2016
Timeline
Stay Involved Sign up for project email updates and meeting notices at trimet.org/division. For more information, please call TriMet Community Affairs at 503-962-2150.
