1. Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project
Growing Places

2. Preface: Neil McFarlane & Daniel W. Blocher 2
MAX Orange Line Station Areas
Lincoln St/SW 3rd Ave Station 3-4
Innovation Quadrant
South Waterfront/SW Moody Ave Station 5-6
Tilikum Crossing 7-8
OMSI/SE Water Ave Station 9-10
Clinton/SE 12th Ave Station 11-13
SE 17th Ave & Rhine St Station/SE 17th Ave & Holgate Blvd Station 14-16
SE Bybee Blvd Station 17-18
SE Tacoma St/Johnson Creek Station and Park & Ride 19-20
Milwaukie/Main St Station 21-22
SE Park Ave Station and Park & Ride 23-25
General Project Benefits and Improvements 26-27
Table of Contents
Front cover: The project links to the existing
MAX light rail system at SW 5th Avenue
in Downtown Portland, making transit
connections with the region possible.
Growing Places demonstrates how collaboration between jurisdictions, agencies and
communities helped the region reach beyond the construction of a light rail alignment
to help achieve many goals. This report highlights the partnerships responsible
for enhancing the region’s livability through purposeful strategies regarding
redevelopment, sustainability, active transportation, public art, and more, during
planning and construction of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project.

3. The southern end of the project brings MAX light rail service to
Milwaukie and North Clackamas County and includes a Park &
Ride, a Bike & Ride, and improvements to the Trolley Trail.

4. Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project Sustainability Report
Making the MAX Orange Line Green

5. This page: Planting new landscaping along the MAX Orange Line.
Cover photo: Eco-track in bloom at the Lincoln St/SW 3rd Ave Station.

6. Table of Contents
Introduction
An Innovative Approach to Sustainability............................................................................4
Key Sustainability Practices
Leadership.............................................................................................................................................6
Stormwater...........................................................................................................................................8
Spotlight:Tilikum Crossing..........................................................................................................12
Resource Use........................................................................................................................................14
Energy......................................................................................................................................................18
Active Transportation Improvements.....................................................................................22
Habitat....................................................................................................................................................25
Livability..................................................................................................................................................28
Spotlight: SE Park Ave Park & Ride.............................................................................................33
Conclusion
Moving Forward.................................................................................................................................34
Thanks to Our Sustainability Partners...................................................................................35
The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project is a partnership of:

7. When the 7.3-mile Portland-Milwaukie
Light Rail Transit Project opens
September 12, 2015, as the new MAX
Orange Line, it will connect downtown
Portland, inner southeast Portland,
Milwaukie and North Clackamas County.
By 2030, Metro projects there will be
approximately 22,000 households
and 85,000 employees within walking
distance of the new MAX stations. By
this time, the line is projected to carry
up to an average of 22,765 weekday
rides.
Focus on Sustainability
The project employed an industry-
leading approach to sustainable design,
with early and ongoing commitments
made to sustainable practices and a
groundbreaking reporting process. The
project sets new standards for what can
be considered part of a light rail project,
with initiatives as diverse as growing
infrastructure, active transportation
MAX Orange Line route and stations map.
SE 17th Ave &
Rhine St
SE 17th Ave &
Holgate Blvd
SE Bybee Blvd
SETacoma St/
Johnson Creek
E Burnside StE Burnside St
NE Halsey StNE Halsey St
SE Stark StSE Stark St
NE Glisan StNE Glisan St
SE Belmont StSE Belmont St
SE Hawthorne StSE Hawthorne St
SE Division StSE Division St
SE Harrison St
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SE Powell StSE Powell St
SE Holgate BlvdSE Holgate Blvd
SE Flavel StSE Flavel St
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SE Steele StSE Steele St
SE Woodstock BlvdSE Woodstock Blvd
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SETacoma StSETacoma St
SEMcLoughlinBlvd
SEMcLoughlinBlvd
SE Bybee BlvdSE Bybee Blvd
SE13th
Ave
SE13th
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SE17thAveSE17thAve
Milwaukie
SE Monroe St
SE Railroad Ave
SELinwoodAve
SE Lake Rd
SE Aldercrest Rd
SE Johnson Creek Rd
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Sandy Blvd
SE Park Ave
Milwaukie/
Main St
SEPark Ave
OMSI/SE Water Ave
SouthWaterfront/
SW Moody Ave
Clinton/
SE 12th Ave
Portland
City
Center
Lincoln St/
SW 3rd Ave
PMLR route
Park & Ride
County line
PMLR station
Existing MAX lines
Note: Trains will serve all
Downtown Portland
Transit Mall stations.
Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project
“We strive to build and
operate our systems in the
most sustainable way possible,
from construction projects to
daily operations.”
–TriMet’s Commitment to Sustainability
amenities and on-site alternative energy
generation. The new Orange Line will
serve as a best practices standard for
bringing principles of sustainability into
large infrastructure projects.
Introduction
An Innovative Approach to
Sustainability
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8. we built the max orange line
Strengthening small businesses and communities while
expanding regional transit

9. Preface 1-2
Our work is about people 3-5
Building on experience 6-9
A workforce that mirrors our community 10-12
Skills for the future 13
DBE Champions 14-22
Looking ahead 23
Table of Contents
This report highlights how TriMet combined its experience on past light rail projects, strong
relationships with project contractors, and careful monitoring and reporting to reach new
levels of participation by businesses owned by people of color and women in design and
construction of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project—the new MAX Orange Line.
Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project partners:

10. Our work is about people
Opening September 12, 2015, the MAX Orange Line is the most recent addition
to the Portland region’s MAX light rail network. The Orange Line extends
7.3 miles from Portland State University in Downtown Portland to Milwaukie
and North Clackamas County. Far more than the installation of light rail track,
construction sites included streets, buildings, parking structures, and 10 new
bridges, large and small, including Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People,
Portland’s first new bridge across the Willamette River in more than 40 years.
TriMet encouraged small businesses, including many certified as disadvantaged
business enterprises (DBEs), to participate in building the MAX Orange Line
by working on the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project. Moreover,
contractors were urged to employ an ethnically diverse workforce and to
subcontract with DBEs when feasible.
TriMet’s approach to this challenge has evolved since the earliest MAX projects.
This experience suggested ways to engage a greater number of diverse
businesses and, workers and, most importantly, strategies to help these
businesses and individuals develop new skills and greater earning capacity.
Growing local businesses that provide family-wage jobs boosts the regional
economy and benefits each of the many jurisdictions that contributed funds to
MAX Orange Line construction.
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11. Our work is about people
To get a sense of the project’s success in involving disadvantaged businesses,
consider this: The construction price tag for the MAX Orange Line is twice that
of its most recent predecessor, the MAX Green Line—while the dollar value of
contracts with Orange Line disadvantaged businesses is three times the amount
earned by DBE businesses on the Green Line.
Communicating our values
TriMet’s top value is “Do the Right Thing.” In contracting, the “right thing” is
to ask that small businesses—including businesses owned by women and
ethnic minorities—are given the opportunity to compete for contracts. Equally
important is urging contractors to hire workers and apprentices representative of
the diversity of the Portland region.
Inclusiveness starts at the top with TriMet’s Board of Directors and is reinforced at
every level.
And long before contracts are awarded, project staff make sure the contracting
community is aware of the agency’s equity values and expectations. Diversity
results are closely tracked and reported not only to project managers, but also to
the Board of Directors and the Federal Transit Administration. This ensures that
the project team meets, and even exceeds, the commitment to inclusivity.
General Manager Neil McFarlane
touring MAX Orange Line
construction with Anthony Foxx,
U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
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