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Washington County contains four focus areas where safer access to transit should be prioritized. The analysis recom-
mends specific solutions to address these needs, including wider sidewalks, enhanced and more frequent pedestrian
crossings, pedestrian pathways, and bus shelters. Each focus area includes at least a one-half-mile buffer around the
location listed in the table. The focus areas are:
• SW Farmington Road and Murray Boulevard,
• Tanasbourne Regional Center,

• Tigard Transit Center, and
• SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway and Scholls Ferry Road.

Detailed recommendations for each site are included in the Existing Conditions & Future Needs Report.

Other Transit Needs
Based on observed conditions and public input, other transit needs in Washington County are summarized below:
• Additional and higher-quality bicycle parking at MAX and WES stations, including more bicycle lockers, bike-
and-ride facilities, or other secure bike parking solutions. Based on ridership and major employment loca-
tions, bicycle parking improvements could particularly benefit MAX stations at Willow Creek, Millikan Way,
Hatfield Government Center, Orenco Station, and Fair Complex. Outside of Washington County, a bike-and-
ride at Goose Hollow MAX station in Portland would provide significant utility for travelers who commute from
Portland to Washington County, and could potentially reduce demand for bringing bikes aboard MAX.
• Bus pull-outs or other operational treatments at in-lane bus stops on roadways with congestion problems, in-
cluding TV Highway and 185th Avenue; companion solutions may also be helpful, such as queue-jump lanes in
which buses can proceed through an intersection using a right-turn lane before or after a bus stop. Transit signal
priority is another tool that can improve transit service reliability along with general traffic operations. It extends
a traffic signal green phase by a few seconds if an approaching bus is observed to be running behind schedule.
• Real-time transit arrival displays at any rail stations that lack them, and at appropriate major bus stops.

• A comprehensive look at park-and-rides, including demand, capacity, pricing, redevelopment consider-
ations, and structured parking. The most obvious location where demand exceeds capacity is at the Sun-
set Transit Center. Car parking here is usually unavailable after 7:30 AM on weekdays, which may discour-
age some transit use.
• A comprehensive rider’s guide for the many overlapping transit services in Washington County. Information
about other services is posted on the TriMet website at: http://trimet.org/schedules/othertransit.htm.

High Capacity Transit Planning
Metro completed a Regional High Capacity Transit (HCT) System Plan in 2010; the first comprehensive HCT vision for
the Portland region since 1982. The HCT Plan explored the feasibility of new light rail, commuter rail, rapid streetcar, or
bus rapid transit lines in the region to improve mobility and transit performance, and to support land use goals set out
in the Metro 2040 Growth Concept. HCT routes are envisioned to connect the region’s centers - those areas with higher
densities, mixed land uses, walkable streets, and higher expectations for non-automobile modal targets. Metro devel-
oped the HCT Plan in coordination with TriMet, counties, cities, and a range of private stakeholders. The HCT Plan also
included public workshops in communities throughout the region.

Starting with 55 potential HCT corridors collected from past plans, stakeholder interviews and public workshops, the project
team used a screening process based on ridership, cost, environmental constraints, equity, connectivity, congestion, land
use and travel demand. This resulted in 18 refined HCT corridors divided into four tiers. Eight proposed HCT corridors are
located within Washington County The tiers and proposed corridors are described in the Transit System Map section and
mapped in Figure 3-28. In 2013 planning began on the Southwest Corridor HCT connecting Tualatin, Tigard and Portland.

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