Better Red News Today

Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) is beginning a new phase of accessibility and park improvements to Gateway Green, the hiking and off-road cycling park at the confluence of I-84 and I-205 in East Portland.

The Gateway North Station will open on March 4 as TriMet finishes the second phase in its years-long A Better Red project, which officials kicked off in 2021 in an effort to improve the efficiency and reach of the MAX Red Line.

PDX is rolling out new designs in two phases, beginning in late May 2024 and ending in late 2025.

Multnomah County will open emergency warming shelters tonight, starting at 8 pm. With the possibility of snow in some areas of Portland, County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson said a state of emergency will trigger the opening of four severe weather shelters and a “limited number of severe weather beds” at a year-round shelter already in operation. The four shelters opening at 8 pm tonight are: Cook Plaza: 19421 S.E. Stark St., Gresham, operated by Cultivate...

Crews are entering the home stretch of work on the new main terminal at the Portland International Airport, which is slated to open in May.

The extreme weather prompted TriMet to shift its project, "A Better Red," by one week.Construction is now officially fully underway. The disruption to MAX Blue,

PORTLAND, Ore. –– RT&S has reported for a while on the transit project in Portland, Oregon known as "A Better Red" for the city's TriMet system. The agency recently announced that due to the severe winter weather experienced in the region, construction will be delayed one week. This story details both the nature of the disruption and how passengers can work around it.

In a sign that the Portland region is slowly thawing out, TriMet announced that most MAX service had been restored on most bus lines were back to regular routes and schedules by early Sunday.

Portland, Ore.––Construction on TriMet’s A Better Red MAX Extension and Reliability Improvements Project will close the Gateway Transit Center to MAX trains for six weeks starting Sunday, Jan. 14. With the MAX Blue, Green and Red lines impacted, shuttle buses will serve closed stations through the end of the disruption on Feb. 25. TriMet will also use this opportunity to perform reliability improvements to the MAX system along Interstate 84 and just east of the transit center.

(Portland, OR) -- Construction on the Better Red project will prevent MAX trains from stopping at the Gateway Transit Center from January 14th through February 25th. The Blue Line won't run betwe...