TriMet is the regional public transit agency.
TriMetSays "MAX carries 30 percent of evening rush-hour commuters traveling from Downtown on the Sunset and Banfield freeways."
"Without Westside MAX, we’d need to add 2.9 lanes to the Sunset Highway."
The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project has created 1,525 direct jobs as of June 11, 2012.