Crews deliver the Portland area's first 'Type 5' light rail vehicle to the Ruby Junction yard on Sept. 29, 2014. (TriMet/Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project) Apparently, TriMet has its own Area ...

TriMet last added light-rail vehicles to its fleet in the lead-up to the opening of the Orange Line. It paid $73.8 million for 18 "Type 5" cars from Siemens as part of the project. That time ...

(Photos by Jim “K’Tesh” Parsons) TriMet has spent just over $79 million on 18 new MAX trains that will run on the Orange Line when it opens in September. If you board the new “Type 5” trains with a ...

Their exterior shape is pretty similar to the Type 5 trains that debuted in 2015, but there's one difference that makes them easy to spot out on the rails: the new ones are decked out in TriMet's ...

TriMet in 1997 was the first North American transit agency to deploy low-floor LRVs with the Type 2 SD660 from Siemens. Since then, Siemens has supplied every MAX LRV: The Type 3 (also SD660) in 2003, ...

New data from TriMet shows reports of smoking on one of the busiest transit systems in the country have significantly dropped ...

Portland’s TriMet has unveiled the redesigned Siemens S70 “Type 5” MAX light rail vehicle at its maintenance facility in Gresham, Ore. The Type 5 LRV, designed and manufactured by Siemens at its ...

TriMet ridership increased considerably in the first two years after the pandemic, but the comeback slowed last year. Rides are up less than 5% so far this year, suggesting ridership may be ...

And I will say this is not just a TriMet issue, this is a national issue. All public transit are dealing with similar types of issues out there." TriMet is also encouraging riders to report code ...