Talk:Rose Quarter Transit Center

Sources

Which part is the unreferenced/uncited bit? About the noise? I can dig up cites for just about the rest of the info here.-- Callcentermonkey 14:20, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

This TC Opened September 1, 1985

I can tell you this transit center opened, as the Coliseum Transit Center, on September 1, 1985. The source? TriMet's old map which is to be used from September 1, 1985 to June 14, 1986. See this link for details why: [1] The lines it originally served included:

4 - Fessenden (part of 4 - Division/Fessenden)

8 - NE 15th Avenue (part of 8 - Jackson Park/NE 15th Avenue)

41 - Fremont (now 24 - Fremont; current line terminates westbound from Gateway TC at Legacy Emanuel Hospital)

55 - Mocks Crest (now part of 44 - Capitol Hwy./Mocks Crest)

85 - Swan Island (then rush-hour shuttle service to guess where)

WikiPro1981X (talk) 12:49, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

The fact that the full system map you mention carries that date does not mean the transit center opened on that date; maps have to be printed weeks in advance of scheduled changes. In fact, all of the service changes originally set to go into effect on September 1, 1985 were delayed four weeks, to September 29, 1985, because of a labor conflict that almost led to a strike. I agree that the date of Coliseum TC's opening should be added to the article (which was originally treated as just a light rail station in this article), and I'll look for a citable source when I have time. SJ Morg (talk) 08:11, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up. According to that same source, it mentions that there would be an announcement that the following bus lines that then served what became the Coliseum TC as it was first known, would once again use the Steel Bridge in "late 1985" (this could've been November or December of '85, or even January '86). However, the very last printing of the 91-MKC Flyer line (eff. June 15, 1986) shows it using the Burnside Bridge to enter and leave downtown Portland, so further contradictions may have arisen, but the strike that was proposed in late 1985, thankfully never happened. WikiPro1981X (talk) 09:28, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Furthermore, SJ Morg, I may have to back myself up on this. I'd say the CTC in its first phase, was just two bus stops (one for inbound runs and the other outbound) at Occident Ave. between Hassalo and Holladay streets, served then by the five bus lines I previously mentioned, and then, after its official opening Sept. 5, 1986, to coincide with the launch of the MAX Blue Line, more bus lines served this TC. A similar story can be applied to the Sunset TC (the replacement for Cedar Hills TC)--that started out in early 1997 as just a parking garage, and the only bus line that served it initially was an old version of Line 89. When that TC finally opened officially in late 1998, again, more bus lines served it. WikiPro1981X (talk) 06:54, 16 July 2012 (UTC)